On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:18 +1300, Mike C wrote: > All the documentation I've seen for PITR points to having to do a file > system copy of sorts. Yes. There's no other way, but why would you want another way? > Is it possible to have a weekly pg_dump and restore the database up to > the last archived WAL file if the db server fails? No. pg_dump only copies the data, not the current state of the database. > If so, how? Is it just a matter of restoring the database then copying > the archived WAL files into the xlog dir and creating a recovery.conf > file? Best Regards, Simon Riggs
