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Re: [HACKERS] Hot Backup

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-09T00:26:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2002 at 13:48, Neil Conway wrote:
> 
> > "Sandeep Chadha" <sandeep@newnetco.com> writes:
> > > Postgresql has been lacking this all along. I've installed postgres
> > > 7.3b2 and still don't see any archive's flushed to any other
> > > place. Please let me know how is hot backup procedure implemented in
> > > current 7.3 beta(2) release.
> > AFAIK no such hot backup feature has been implemented for 7.3 -- you
> > appear to have been misinformed.
> 
> Is replication an answer to hot backup?

We already allow hot backups using pg_dump.  If you mean point-in-time
recovery, we have a patch for that ready for 7.4.

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