Re: Basic Question on Point In Time Recovery

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:40:09AM -0400, Joseph Kregloh wrote:
> Have you looked into Barman? http://www.pgbarman.org/ It does what you
> want.  You can take a full daily backup and it keeps track of the WAL files
> to allow for a PITR.

I just had a look at the documentation (and the rest of your mail),
and this doesn't actually seem to do what the OP wanted, which is to
get PITR _per database_ in the same cluster.  Upthread someone
suggested a way around this, which is to PITR a cluster to a
known-good point and then pg_dump the target database.  But if Barman
can do this automatically, that'd be cool (it's just not in the docs).

Barman does look like a nice convenience package for managing
WAL-shipping type backup installations instead of building one's own
scripts, so this note isn't intended as a criticism of the package.
I'm just not sure it does the thing requested in this case.

A

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