On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:
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> On 12/01/2017 12:56 PM, support-tiger wrote:
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>> To diversify risk, we would like to have a daily or weekly data backup
>> stored in another location besides the VPS service we are using - pg_dump
>> is great for the backup but transferring a growing db across the internet
>> to a local machine disk seems slow - how are others handling this with
>> postgresql ? Thks.
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>> So long as you're looking for more kinds of risk, why not stream the WAL
> files to another instance?
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>how are others handling this with postgresql ?
One technique is to replicate to a slave on another server and do the
pg_dump on the slave.
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