Re: [HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 09 February 2007 08:16, Doug Knight wrote: > I would also be interested in any "creative" ways to reduce the size and > time to backup databases/clusters. We were just having a conversation > about this yesterday. We were mulling over things like using rsync to > only backup files in the

Re: [HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Doug Knight wrote: I would also be interested in any "creative" ways to reduce the size and time to backup databases/clusters. We were just having a conversation about this yesterday. We were mulling over things like using rsync to only backup files in the database directory tree that actually ch

Re: [HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, We have a requirement to deal with large databases of the size Terabytes when we go into production. What is the best database back-up mechanism and possible issues? pg_dump can back-up database but the dump file is limited by OS file-size limit. What abo

Re: [HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-09 Thread Doug Knight
I would also be interested in any "creative" ways to reduce the size and time to backup databases/clusters. We were just having a conversation about this yesterday. We were mulling over things like using rsync to only backup files in the database directory tree that actually changed. Or maybe doing

Re: [HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-09 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a requirement to deal with large databases of the size Terabytes when we go into production. What is the best database back-up mechanism and possible issues? It depends. Make sure you read Chapter 23. Backup and Restore of the user manual: http://www.postgres

[HACKERS] Database backup mechanism

2007-02-09 Thread RaviKumar . Mandala
Hi Folks, We have a requirement to deal with large databases of the size Terabytes when we go into production. What is the best database back-up mechanism and possible issues? pg_dump can back-up database but the dump file is limited by OS file-size limit. What about the option of compressing