Quick question: I have installed PG 8.2.x on a customer's system and we will be storing a lot of critical data on it. It needs to be backed up maybe twice a day. It's very easy to back data up with the pgadmin tool (great tool btw) but we need an automated solution that we can configure. This is all running on a Windows 2003 server. Any suggestions? We're perfectly open to commercial or non-commercial solutions.
Ideally this should be able to do a hot backup, where it gets a valid snapshot even as the server is running. I don't know that, in these days of super-cheap disks, we need to worry about incremental backup. If the entire dataset is 1gb (which it isn't) then a large current hard drive can hold a full years worth of dumps, so incremental backup doesn't seem relevant. Btw, this pgadmin was pretty cool. I've only ever used PG on Linux until now and I had never seen a tool like that. I was impressed with how easy it was to install PG, get it running, and then use this pgadmin tool to control everything. And I'm a total newbie on Windows. This was the first time I have ever looked at Windows 2003 Server. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
