Marcin,

What I have done in the past is setup a bi-monthly base backup (pg_start_backup:rsync data:pg_stop_backup) and archive the WAL files between base backups with the archive_command option in postgresql.conf, saving 2 base backups and removing anything older than the oldest base backup. If you use rsync with the --link-dest option you can possibly save much space between the two base backups if you do not have many deletes in your DB. The --link-dest option assume you are rsyncing to a filesystem which supports hardlinks. I also gzip the WAL files when archiving them.

But what if my database has ~200GB and more (I know this is a future :D)? From my point of view it won't be good idea to copy entire database to backup array. I would like to here opinions about this case - what do you propose? Maybe some of you already do something like this?

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