Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
This addresses the technical workings of the various backup systems.
The fact that it is or isn't on-line, hot, continuous, fast, or flexible
is secondary.
To me, the continuous activity is the significant feature of that
Am Montag, 26. Dezember 2005 20:46 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
FWIW, I believe log archival is a common term for that.
I like that better, although there are a lot of logs, so maybe transaction
log archival.
Considering the list originally referenced:
- File system backup
- SQL dump
-
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Am Montag, 26. Dezember 2005 20:46 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
FWIW, I believe log archival is a common term for that.
I like that better, although there are a lot of logs, so maybe
transaction log archival.
Yep, when I think of log archiving, I think of saving the
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
This addresses the technical workings of the various backup systems.
The fact that it is or isn't on-line, hot, continuous, fast, or flexible
is secondary.
To me, the continuous activity is the significant feature of that backup
method. I chose
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I noticed that we are using the term Online Backup in our
documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.
To me, online backup is doing a backup while the system is online
(online-backup), and that is accomplished by
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
