The owners of the animal hospital where I work at want to consider live/hot backups through out the day so we're less likely to lose a whole day of transaction. We use Postgresql 8.0.15. We do 3AM backups, using pg_dumpall, to a file when there is very little activity. The hospital enjoys the overall performance of the veterinary application running on Postgresql. I know doing a mid-day backup when up to 60 computers (consistently 35-40) are access client/patient information, it will cause some frustration. I understand there needs to be balance of performance and backup of current records. While I know that not all situations are the same, I am hoping there is a performance latency that others have experienced when doing backups during the day and/or planning for cluster (or other types of redundancy). My animal hospital operates 24x7 and is in the south part of the San Francisco Bay area. Outside of sharing your experiences/input with me, I would not mind if you/your company do this type of consulting offline. Thank you. Steve - Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
