Patrick Macdonald wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Someone at Red Hat is working on point-in-time recovery, also known as
> > incremental backups. 
> 
> PITR and incremental backup are different beasts.  PITR deals with a backup
> + logs.  Incremental backup deals with a full backup + X smaller/incremental
> backups.
> 
> So... it doesn't look like anyone is working on incremental backup at the 
> moment.

But why would someone want incremental backups compared to PITR?  The
backup would be mixture of INSERTS, UPDATES, and DELETES, right?  Seems
pretty weird.  :-)

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