On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Greg Harris <ghar...@teamexpansion.org> wrote:
> I started down that road. The main problem with that process is amount of
> extra space required on both the live machine and the backup. Incremental
> recovery of multiple backups is already handled by BackupPC.
>
If your database has a 'backup to stdout' command like mysqldump or
pg_dump you can pipe though gzip to save the local copy which may save
enough space to make it practical. And then you can exclude the
uncompressed location from your backup to also save space on the
server.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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