On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:04, Alexander Burbello wrote: > 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? You have read this section of the manual, right? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup-online.html
