>>> "Campbell, Lance" <lance@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PostgreSQL: 8.2 > I am about to change my backup and failover procedure from dumping a full > file SQL dump of our data every so many minutes You're currently running pg_dump every so many minutes? > to using WAL files. Be sure you have read (and understand) this section of the docs: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/backup.html -Kevin