From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: point-in-time recovery
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:17:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200304251417.h3PEHBo06807@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304251115.53295.mallah@trade-india.com>
Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
>
>
> What is this PITR anyway ?
>
> when it comes will i be able to
>
> 1. reduce by pg_dump times ?
> 2. can afford to run pg_dump less frequently ?
> 3. Will be able to rollback committed transactions of past 5 mins?
You can do a dump, then do continuous logging of all database changes
until the next backup. If you crash in the middle of the day, you can
recover up to the point of the crash.
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