Re: [GENERAL] Backups with continuous archiving

2011-03-23 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:20 AM, runner wrote: > A) CREATING FILESSYSTEM SNAPSHOTS - We're snapping the data, wal and archive > directories. We only plan on using the data snap and that's just so we can > perform the backup faster. Will the wal and archive snapshots be useful for > anything?

[GENERAL] Backups with continuous archiving

2011-03-21 Thread runner
Using Postgres 9.0.3 on Solaris 10 (Sparc). I have a few questions concerning hot backups with continuous archiving. We have read and think we understand the Postgres documentation on backup and restore located here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/continuous-archiving.html We