On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:56:20 -0400, "mcelroy, tim" <tim.mcelroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer Scott. I thought so but wanted to double-check. > I was asked by the person who performs our system backups if just backing up > the directory where I put the nightly backups (created with pg_dump) was > enough. I also have them backing up /var/lib/pgsql and everything under > that and they're complaining that it's taking too long. I would think we > would also want to back up the pg_xlog directory though. Or is that > overkill? Is there a standard in the PG community I should follow? Is just > performing the pg_dump and saving that to tape enough? I just don't want to > get bit in the butt if I tell him to not back something up that should be > backed up. You might want to make sure you have the configuration files backed up as well.
