Re: Planning hot/live backups?

Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Steve Poe wrote:
>> The owners of the animal hospital where I work at want to consider
>> live/hot
>> backups through out the day so we're less likely to lose a whole
>> day of transaction.  We use Postgresql 8.0.15. We do 3AM
>> backups, using pg_dumpall, to a file when there is very little activity.
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> You probably want to look into PITR, you can have a constant ongoing
> backup of your data and never lose more than a few minutes of data.
> The overhead isn't all the big especially if you are shipping the log
> files to a separate server.
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I'll second that.  PITR is IMHO the way to go, and I believe you'll be
pleasantly surprised how easy it is to do.  As always, test your backup
strategy by restoring.  Even better, make a point of periodically
testing a restore of production backups to a non-production system.

Paul