OK, once we have PITR, will anyone want incremental backups? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Martin Marques wrote: > On Jue 13 Feb 2003 16:38, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > 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. :-) > > Good backup systems, such as Informix (it's the one I used) doesn't do a query > backup, but a pages backup. What I mean is that it looks for pages in the > system that has changed from the las full backup and backs them up. > > That's how an incremental backup works. PITR is another thing, which is even > more important. :-) > > -- > Porqu? usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, > si pod?s usar PostgreSQL? > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Mart?n Marqu?s | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica > Universidad Nacional > del Litoral > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
