On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:04, Alexander Burbello wrote:
> Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not
> recommended.
> Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain.
> Suppose that you backed up at 6:00am and at 9am happened a crash on the
> server.
> In this case, I would lost data between that time, 3 hours of information.
>
> For production databases, my plan is to do phisical backup including WAL.
> If a crash happen, I can restore the datafiles and recover applying the
> WAL logs until the last file was generated.
> As Oracle does in this type of crash.
>
> My doubt is that I am not getting apply the WAL files on recover stage.
>
> Any other suggestion?
You have read this section of the manual, right?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup-online.html