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?
Mainly because a pg_dump backup takes up a lot less disk space than a filesystem copy (in my case, approx 3.5GB backup from a 25GB db).
> 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.
I guess if pg_dump was modified to record the last complete transaction id (in archive format maybe) then the WAL files could be used?
Thanks for the response,
Mike C.
