Re: [GENERAL] DATA Integrity & Recovery

2017-07-12 Thread stevenchang1213
I just finished a point in time  recovery  from a rsync physical data file backup + wal archive.Of course it works!You can also achieve the same goal through pg_basebackup. By your descriptions, your vendor seems to use logical backup through pg_dump. Anyway you can only achieve no data loss thro

Re: [GENERAL] DATA Integrity & Recovery

2017-07-12 Thread Albe Laurenz
chris faber wrote: > Postgres 9.2 > > We have a POSTGRES database that we have been backing up via Incremental > backups. You are talking of a physical base backup and WAL archives, right? > We had an incident where we had to recover from backup. Our software vendor > has completed > a restore

Re: [GENERAL] DATA Integrity & Recovery

2017-07-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, chris faber wrote: I would appreciate the communities help in the following: 1. Determine if data from the incremental backups can be restored or recovered. 2. Determine if data can be recovered from individual files backed up from main Postgres data directory. Chris,