Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02C165072C for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:27:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62895-08-2 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:26:36 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gwmta.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FB065061F for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gwmta.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:24:26 -0500 Message-Id: <487C9741.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.3 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:24:10 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Lance Campbell" , Subject: Re: Backup and failover process References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200807/137 X-Sequence-Number: 29747 >>> "Campbell, Lance" 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