Re: Automatic backup with Linux.

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 17:21, Rommel B. Abaya wrote:
> isn't there any faster method to backup data than pg_dump  ???

pg_dump preserves the consistency of the database.  That is more
important than raw speed.

> or is there a way to speed up pg_dump ???

Not that I know of

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