Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our > > documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR. > > > > To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online > > (online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump. I know a lot of > > databases us "Online Backup" but I assume this is for historical reasons > > because at some time in the past their full backups didn't work while > > the database was online. Other systems use the term "Continuous > > Logging", but I think that is too easily confused with the server > > activity logs. > > > > I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous > > Backup". > > I have never heard the term Continuous backup. Although I have heard > online backup. The problem is that when I hear the term online backup > I think Hot backup which is what we do with pg_dump.
Yes, that is my problem too. > I would just call the other Point in time recovery :) The problem there is that it is "recovery", and the documentation talks about the "backup" step. I am thinking we are going to have to add something like "Continuous backup, also called Online Backup" or something like that. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
