On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:03 +0200, Johannes Konert wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Anything else in there you should be grabbing via pg_dump anyway. > So you suggest not to backup the filesystem-files, but to do a dump > instead? Does this work together with PITR as described in 23.3. > (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP). > I want to make a full backup every night of a heavy DB while it is > running. Combined with short-term-WAL-archiving. Getting the WAL-files > is easy by using the config-parameter archive_command, but to copy and > backup the "base backup" once a day is impossible if I cannot access the > data-files. > Will the described backup&restore work as well with a dump + WAL-files? > Then I could forget about copying the file-system-files.... No, it won't, so I'm not sure what Josh means. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
