Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Jeff Janes
On Monday, April 22, 2013, Moshe Jacobson wrote: > We have a report in our system that is pulled many times each week, but > needs to be based off data from Sunday at noon. So every Sunday at noon, we > back up our main database and restore it into a new reporting snapshot > database. > > The prob

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/22/2013 12:16 PM, Moshe Jacobson wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Christophe Pettus mailto:x...@thebuild.com>> wrote: > Not bad, but the transaction logs would fill up the file system. I'm not sure I understand that comment. Why would the transaction logs be particul

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:16:19PM -0400, Moshe Jacobson wrote: > > > Not bad, but the transaction logs would fill up the file system. > > > > I'm not sure I understand that comment. Why would the transaction logs be > > particularly voluminous in this case? > > > > I assumed the logs would be s

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Moshe Jacobson
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote: > > Not bad, but the transaction logs would fill up the file system. > > I'm not sure I understand that comment. Why would the transaction logs be > particularly voluminous in this case? > I assumed the logs would be shipping to the slav

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/22/2013 10:05 AM, Moshe Jacobson wrote: Setup a slave. Not bad, but the transaction logs would fill up the file system. Besides, it would not be worth it to set up a whole database cluster just for this purpose. Any alternatives? if your file system supports it (ZFS, for instance

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Apr 22, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Moshe Jacobson wrote: > Not bad, but the transaction logs would fill up the file system. I'm not sure I understand that comment. Why would the transaction logs be particularly voluminous in this case? > Besides, it would not be worth it to set up a whole database

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Moshe Jacobson
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > We have a report in our system that is pulled many times each week, but > > needs to be based off data from Sunday at noon. So every Sunday at noon, > we > > back up our main database and restore it into a new reporting snapshot > > data

Re: [GENERAL] Need solution for weekly database "snapshot"

2013-04-22 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:58:58AM -0400, Moshe Jacobson wrote: > We have a report in our system that is pulled many times each week, but > needs to be based off data from Sunday at noon. So every Sunday at noon, we > back up our main database and restore it into a new reporting snapshot > databas