Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not
recommended.
Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain.
Suppose that you backed up at 6:00am and at 9am happened a crash on the
server.
In this case, I would lost data between that time, 3 hours of information.
For production databases, my plan is to do phisical backup including WAL.
If a crash happen, I can restore the datafiles and recover applying the
WAL logs until the last file was generated.
As Oracle does in this type of crash.
My doubt is that I am not getting apply the WAL files on recover stage.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks for your help
Aaron Bono escreveu:
On 7/11/06, *Burbello* <burbello3000@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:burbello3000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I need to test and create a procedure to restore
databases.
Why not just use pg_dump?
See http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html
<http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html> - it's really easy.
This is how we copy from production to testing and development and how
we do nightly backups.
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Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
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