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From: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:46:44 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that is my problem too.
>
>> I would just call the other Point in time recovery :)
>
> The problem there is that it is "recovery", and the documentation talks
> about the "backup" step.  I am thinking we are going to have to add
> something like "Continuous backup, also called Online Backup" or
> something like that.

FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.

- Heikki

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