> I'm interested in the "incrementally updated backups" scenarioThat section has been removed from the current 9.0 docs because we are
> described in section 25.6 of the Postgres 9 documentation. I've
> configured streaming replication for my warm standby server.
>
> Step 2 in this procedure is to note?pg_last_xlog_replay_location at
> the end of the backup. However it seems like this requires hot standby
> to be configured; otherwise there is no way of connecting to the
> standby machine to make the required query. That does not seem clear
> from the documentation. Is there a way to get this without using hot
> standby?
unsure it works.
Is the feature (or the documentation) still being worked on, or is pg_dump the only way to take a backup of a warm standby while the database is running?
Regards
Mikko