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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.  I know a lot of
> databases us "Online Backup" but I assume this is for historical reasons
> because at some time in the past their full backups didn't work while
> the database was online. Other systems use the term "Continuous
> Logging", but I think that is too easily confused with the server
> activity logs.
> 
> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
> Backup".

I have never heard the term Continuous backup. Although I have heard 
online backup. The problem is that when I hear the term online backup
I think Hot backup which is what we do with pg_dump.

I would just call the other Point in time recovery :)

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