From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Lance Campbell <lance@illinois.edu>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Backup and failover process
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:24:10 -0500
Message-ID: <487C9741.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE87601970FD@SAB-FENWICK.sab.uiuc.edu>
References: <B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE87601970FD@SAB-FENWICK.sab.uiuc.edu>
>>> "Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu> wrote:
> PostgreSQL: 8.2
> I am about to change my backup and failover procedure from dumping a
full
> file SQL dump of our data every so many minutes
You're currently running pg_dump every so many minutes?
> to using WAL files.
Be sure you have read (and understand) this section of the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/backup.html
-Kevin
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