Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436992E6577 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:04:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65106-03-5 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:04:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598E42E34DD for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:47:44 -0400 (AST) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m38so762741waf.5 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:47:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=C/9sWv08F7DFHwM1ao9vpE7U18hls+CPE72q8SFzCHE=; b=PxAHuQJtvAnwc/SBy/fP0YuctZ9v33Va0oPdkZVBlUAreG3tJAXgQd0nqgQPn0CAdSHJmA9oUzBPyl/nzuKpPiZmDMTTL97rUmGJBAtpW/KJV1sxO+AoOyp4ci/rQFR28NNElBl9Tio5UHkOmF5MSDaBg3itcO+BPaNmM5VyKqQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=asc4yVNhQe4rUkxQYULS2x2tuYVUlX39Iov+wuhB1GDvik0Kw/i8q+XC3e+vF7S3S3j0KU7s5GK71bGZziW/9ZdoJ4UKk8BCsmT8ePgKW9yJouEBbX+MUbHNf+X3HjaDTaYbKmaM8b+hrIZvC/eMgzjOxqkg5j9zfssxU4gublA= Received: by 10.114.15.1 with SMTP id 1mr1564502wao.27.1201222062935; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.133.5 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:47:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:47:42 -0600 From: "Scott Marlowe" To: "Dominic Carlucci" Subject: Re: Backup Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, carlucci@cae.ca In-Reply-To: <09881513E25DD549B26BF7F38ECAF8DADA8E96@caemex01.caecorp.cae.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <09881513E25DD549B26BF7F38ECAF8DADA8E96@caemex01.caecorp.cae.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200801/241 X-Sequence-Number: 28015 On Jan 24, 2008 1:08 PM, Dominic Carlucci wrote: > > > Hi, > 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. We presently run VERITAS ver9.1 on > windows2003 server. What is being used by users out there now. We are > thinking of upgrading to the latest Symantec backup exec software but am not > sure if this version does backup PostgreSQL. When called for support they > told me to go to the Symantec site and search the compatibility list. I > didn't find anything dealing with PostgreSQL database. > Any answer would help me simplify my backup situation. Not sure if there's some kind of special plug in for Symantec, but basically, you want to run pg_dump or pg_dumpall and then point symantec to back up the file thus created.