Re: Incremental backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Manfred Koizar
Subject Re: Incremental backup
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Msg-id vegp4vcvq9gvl6i65fv046rka0k7r8r4ls@4ax.com
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In response to Re: Incremental backup  (Patrick Macdonald <patrickm@redhat.com>)
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:24:13 -0500, Patrick Macdonald
<patrickm@redhat.com> wrote:
>I know Oracle and DB2 have incremental backup in their arsenal (and iirc,
>SQL Server has something called "differential backup").  Whatever the name,
>it's a win at the enterprise level. 

"A differential backup copies only the database pages that have been
modified after the last full database backup."

This could be doable using XLogRecPtr pd_lsn in the page headers, but
I don't see an easy way to do it on a live database.

ServusManfred


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