Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not recommended.
Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain.
Suppose that you backed up at 6:00am and at 9am happened a crash on the server.
In this case, I would lost data between that time, 3 hours of information.

For production databases, my plan is to do phisical backup including WAL.
If a crash happen, I can restore the datafiles and recover applying the WAL logs until the last file was generated.
As Oracle does in this type of crash.

My doubt is that I am not getting apply the WAL files on recover stage.

Any other suggestion?

Thanks for your help




Aaron Bono escreveu:

On 7/11/06, *Burbello* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    I need to test and create a procedure to restore
    databases.


Why not just use pg_dump?

See http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html <http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html> - it's really easy. This is how we copy from production to testing and development and how we do nightly backups.


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