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How about using replication instead of incremental backups?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp geek <akpgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or
>> a combination of both
>>
>
> I like to do both. Ongoing PITR, daily base backups (by updating an rsync
> copy), and weekly pg_dumps that in turn go to tape.
>
> PITR gives a very recent restore point in the event of server loss. As
> previously mentioned, the full (custom) backups let you restore individual
> tables. They're also a lot smaller than base backups + WAL logs.
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