John Drescher wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote: >> Eduardo J. Ortega U. wrote: >>> Hi, all: >>> >>> I am considering bacula for backing up a server whose primary role is >>> PostgreSQL. My question is, is bacula appropriate for taking online >>> postgres backups (considering that a filesystem backup when the >>> database is running is a badf solution) ? >> Look at PITR (Point In Time Recovery). This may be acceptable to you. >> > Sounds interesting. I did not know about that. > > BTW, the postgresql manual has a few different methods and a very > detailed explanation of each. > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/backup.html
From that URL, this is the one: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html It requires careful testing. If you do it wrong, you have nothing that you can restore from. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
