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From Sam Barnett-Cormack
Subject Re: Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.50.0310061147360.24521-100000@short.lancs.ac.uk
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In response to Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.  ("Somasekhar Bangalore" <sbangalore@zensutra.com>)
Responses Re: Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.  (Sam Barnett-Cormack <s.barnett-cormack@lancaster.ac.uk>)
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Somasekhar Bangalore wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> I am setting up a postgres 7.3 database for a big client.I don't want to lose any data in case of database crash or
hardwarefailure . I need help in 
>
> 1. Steps needed to setup the postgres database  , is it posssible for me to write data on to two different disks. if
sohow? 

For data redundancy, I reccomend RAID level 0 or 5 - 5 is vastly
superior, if you can afford it.

> 2. Steps needed  to recover the data in case of database crash or hardware crash.

Keep regular backups with pg_dump

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University

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