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Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup

From
Neil Conway
Date:
"Sandeep Chadha" <sandeep@newnetco.com> writes:
> Postgresql has been lacking this all along. I've installed postgres
> 7.3b2 and still don't see any archive's flushed to any other
> place. Please let me know how is hot backup procedure implemented in
> current 7.3 beta(2) release.

AFAIK no such hot backup feature has been implemented for 7.3 -- you
appear to have been misinformed.

That said, I agree that would be a good feature to have.

Cheers,

Neil

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Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup

From
"Shridhar Daithankar"
Date:
On 7 Oct 2002 at 13:48, Neil Conway wrote:

> "Sandeep Chadha" <sandeep@newnetco.com> writes:
> > Postgresql has been lacking this all along. I've installed postgres
> > 7.3b2 and still don't see any archive's flushed to any other
> > place. Please let me know how is hot backup procedure implemented in
> > current 7.3 beta(2) release.
> AFAIK no such hot backup feature has been implemented for 7.3 -- you
> appear to have been misinformed.

Is replication an answer to hot backup?

Bye
 Shridhar

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Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2002 at 13:48, Neil Conway wrote:
>
> > "Sandeep Chadha" <sandeep@newnetco.com> writes:
> > > Postgresql has been lacking this all along. I've installed postgres
> > > 7.3b2 and still don't see any archive's flushed to any other
> > > place. Please let me know how is hot backup procedure implemented in
> > > current 7.3 beta(2) release.
> > AFAIK no such hot backup feature has been implemented for 7.3 -- you
> > appear to have been misinformed.
>
> Is replication an answer to hot backup?

We already allow hot backups using pg_dump.  If you mean point-in-time
recovery, we have a patch for that ready for 7.4.

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