Re: [ADMIN] Backup

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:21 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:
>
>> If you don't mind if you lose some transactions
>>
>
> That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
> risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
> database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.
>
> As far as I am concerned, if any Postgres user loses data then we're all
> responsible.
>
I understand your point, but indicating that you can't trust a
point-in-time snapshot of the database is, IMHO, the same as saying you
can't trust PostgreSQL's automatic crash recovery, since the two are
essentially the same thing...

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