Re: Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Somasekhar Bangalore wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I am setting up a postgres 7.3 database for a big client.I don't want to lose any data in case of database crash or
hardwarefailure . I need help in 
> >
> > 1. Steps needed to setup the postgres database  , is it posssible for me to write data on to two different disks.
ifso how? 
>
> For data redundancy, I reccomend RAID level 0 or 5 - 5 is vastly
> superior, if you can afford it.

Sorry, RAID 1 or 5 - I always get 0 and 1 confused when I use the
numbers. 0 will improve performance but won't give any redundancy.

> > 2. Steps needed  to recover the data in case of database crash or hardware crash.
>
> Keep regular backups with pg_dump
>
>

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