Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> >> This addresses the technical workings of the various backup systems.
> >> The fact that it is or isn't on-line, hot, continuous, fast, or flexible
> >> is secondary.
>
> > To me, the continuous activity is the significant feature of that backup
> > met
Bruce Momjian writes:
>> This addresses the technical workings of the various backup systems.
>> The fact that it is or isn't on-line, hot, continuous, fast, or flexible
>> is secondary.
> To me, the continuous activity is the significant feature of that backup
> method. I chose "Continuous Back
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. Dezember 2005 20:46 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
> > FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.
>
> I like that better, although there are a lot of logs, so maybe
> "transaction log archival".
Yep, when I think of log archiving, I think of sa
Am Montag, 26. Dezember 2005 20:46 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
> FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.
I like that better, although there are a lot of logs, so maybe "transaction
log archival".
Considering the list originally referenced:
- File system backup
- SQL dump
- (Tr
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I have never heard the term Continuous backup. Although I have heard
online backup. The problem is that when I hear the term online backup
I think Hot backup which is what we do with pg_dump.
Yes, that is my problem too.
I wo
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our
> > documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.
> >
> > To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online
> > (online-backup), and that is accompl
