On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:12 -0700, Anj Adu wrote: > Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup tool > like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many > frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay > of a large number of WAL files will take a very long time. We have a > few databases each over 1Tb and are looking for effective > backup/recovery strategies. (Currently..we rely on specific partition > backups via COPY command)...but the process is cumbersome. > > RMAN's incremental backup effectively makes every incremental backup a > full backup which is a great time-saver during recovery. We accept patches, donations and sponsorship opportunities :) Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin