13 Feb 2007 05:54:44 -0800, filippo <filippo2991@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hello, my database is not very big so I want to adopt this backup strategy: I want to clone my database every 1 hour to another database 'currenttime_mydatabase' in order to have 24 backup a day, overwriting the yesterday backups by today-same-time backups. This is good for me because I have all the backups readily available to be read by my program (opening the backup read only). This is a very important for my needs. I'm writing a script run by cron each hour to do accomplish the backup task. My target is to have the backup operation not affecting the users, so I want to be able to copy a database even if the database is used by someone. Can I use CREATE DATABASE my_backup_database TEMPLATE current_database?
no. database used as template must not be accessed during copy
Is there a better way to get what I need?
you can script this: pg_dump sourcedb | psql targetdb -- Filip Rembiałkowski
