On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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.
FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.
- Heikki
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