From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
Cc: 'Dominic Carlucci' <carlucci@cae.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: carlucci@cae.ca
Subject: Re: Backup
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:21:15 +0000
Message-ID: <1201252875.4257.387.camel@ebony.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a201c85ee9$fbd1ca00$9b0014ac@wbaus090>
References: <00a201c85ee9$fbd1ca00$9b0014ac@wbaus090>
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:34 +1100, Phillip Smith wrote:
> > We have a center in Europe who has just started to use PostgreSQL and was
> > asking me if there are any Symantec product or other products that backup
> > this type of database.
>
> It doesn't appear to.
The design of the PITR system allows a product-agnostic backup. Anything
that can backup a file can backup PostgreSQL. There is no need for
special certifications of hologram logos.
You may need to write a few lines of script to do it, but that's not a
problem surely?
So you can use pg_dump or PITR, as you choose.
--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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