On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:18 +1300, Mike C wrote:
> All the documentation I've seen for PITR points to having to do a file
> system copy of sorts.
Yes. There's no other way, but why would you want another way?
> Is it possible to have a weekly pg_dump and restore the database up to
> the last archived WAL file if the db server fails?
No.
pg_dump only copies the data, not the current state of the database.
> If so, how? Is it just a matter of restoring the database then copying
> the archived WAL files into the xlog dir and creating a recovery.conf
> file?
Best Regards, Simon Riggs