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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:20:27PM -0300, Leví Teodoro da Silva wrote:
> - In oracle he makes a full backup two times in a day. In this range of
> time, Oracle make a lot of mini-backups, but this backups is about just the
> data whose have changed in this time. If the system fails, he could
> reconstruct the database adding the last "big backup" with "mini-backups".
> Can Postgres do this ?  *

Take a look at Point-In-Time-Recovery, PITR:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.html

-Berge

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Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
Alegría!