Thread: Re: [GENERAL] Hot Backup

I'd say yes replication can solve lot of issues, but is there a way to do replication in postgres(active-active or
active-passive)

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From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:27 PM
To: shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Hot Backup


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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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:42:56AM -0400, Sandeep Chadha wrote:
> I'd say yes replication can solve lot of issues, but is there a way
> to do replication in postgres(active-active or active-passive)

Yes.  Check out the rserv code in contrib/, the (?) dbmirror code in
contrib/, or contact PostgreSQL, Inc for a commercial version of the
rserv code.

A

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