Re: advanced backup tool

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:12 -0700, Anj Adu wrote:
> Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental  backup tool
> like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many
> frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay
> of a large number of WAL files will take a very long time. We have a
> few databases each over 1Tb and are looking for effective
> backup/recovery strategies.  (Currently..we rely on specific partition
> backups via COPY command)...but the process is cumbersome.
>
> RMAN's incremental backup effectively makes every incremental backup a
> full backup which is a great time-saver during recovery.

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