Thread: hot backup

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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Steulet Grégory wrote:

> I just would like to know if it's possible to dot hot backup(not dump) with
> postgres.

That probably depends what you define as a hot backup. Likely what you are
looking for is Point in Time Recovery through WAL archiving.  Read about it
here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup-online.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steulet Grégory [mailto:Gregory.Steulet@he-arc.ch]
Sent: Mittwoch, 03. August 2005 10:47
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] hot backup

Hi,

 

I just would like to know if it's possible to dot hot backup(not dump) with postgres.

 

Thank you

 

Greg

 

 

Grégory Steulet Assistant HES
HEG Haute école de gestion Arc Laboratoire de Base de Données 84, rue de la Maladière CH-2007 Neuchâtel	Tél. Fax Internet	+41 32 717 42 22 +41 32 889 60 33 http://libd.isnetne.ch