Re: [DOCS] Online backup vs Continuous backup

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> I have never heard the term Continuous backup. Although I have heard
>> online backup. The problem is that when I hear the term online backup
>> I think Hot backup which is what we do with pg_dump.
>
> Yes, that is my problem too.
>
>> I would just call the other Point in time recovery :)
>
> The problem there is that it is "recovery", and the documentation talks
> about the "backup" step.  I am thinking we are going to have to add
> something like "Continuous backup, also called Online Backup" or
> something like that.

FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.

- Heikki