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Subject: Re: Online backup vs Continuous backup
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:33:07 -0500
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> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
>> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
>> Backup".
>
> This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard
> terminology AFAIK.
There's something ambiguous about it, in view that there are two
useful points in time for a backup to be "as of," namely:
a) The start time (which is what pg_dump does), and
b) The end time (which I believe is not uncommon with other systems).
PITR is obviously more like b)...
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