Re: Backup strategy

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:31:43 +0000, Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 18/1/05 8:38 pm, "Lonni J Friedman" <netllama@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:23:23 +0000, Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am setting up the backup strategy for my database.
> >>
> >> The database contains around 25 tables containing quite a lot of data that
> >> does not change very much (and when it does it is changed by me). And around
> >> 20 tables containing data which will be created and updated by the users
> >> regularly.
> >>
> >> I would like to backup the two sets of data separately at different
> >> intervals. The first set only when I update it and the second set several
> >> times per day.
> >>
> >> Would it be best to set up a separate schema for the "static" tables? If so
> >> what would be the simplest and safest way to transfer these tables into a
> >> new schema?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help
> >
> > pg_dump allows you to backup individual tables.  Once you do that, you
> > could import them into a new database.
>
> Would this take care of sequences and any other associated objects also?

I assume so, however I've honestly never backed up individual tables
in a production setting before.  Its always been an entire db for me.
Unless someone else speaks up, you could prolly verify this on your
own on a test box.


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