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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:14:55 -0600 (CST)
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Greg Stark said:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our
>> documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.
>>
>> To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online
>> (online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump.
>
> Well fwiw what pg_dump does isn't even considered a "backup" at all in
> other systems. It's a "logical export" or something of that sort.
>
> It's not considered a "backup" because it's saving something different
> than the actual physical database. When you restore you get something
> (hopefully) logically equivalent but still physically different.


This seems fairly arbitrary. On that basis anything on a higher level than
dd is not a backup method, ISTM.

cheers

andrew

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