Re: Incremental Backup of a particular database

Not sure, but i think WAL based incremental backup is for the whole database
cluster, and not for an specific database, so don't think this is going to
work for you. Is yoor database too large? If not, you could stick to the old
fashioned pg_dump output.

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:23, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> Yes, I guess that is true with 8.2 but with a few configurations for WAL
> copying scripts.
>
> Saw the following in documentation that specifies a good flow for doing it
> --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/warm-standby.html
>
> ---------------
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)
>
> On 1/17/07, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) <
>
> andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk> wrote:
> > Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > > Even with ver 8.1 you can use WAL archive backups (PITR) to implement
> > > an incremental backup strategy.
> >
> > Yes, true, but it's harder with 8.1 as you always have to start from a
> > base backup and roll WAL logs forward - without a custom script you
> > cannot "wait" for new WAL logs to arrive and apply them on top of a base
> > backup.
> > There is a project in PgFoundry to allow for warm-standby in the 8.0 and
> > 8.1 series, however this is reportedly built-in to 8.2 now.
> >
> > > -------------
> > > Shoaib Mir
> > > EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>)
> > >
> > > On 1/17/07, *Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)*
> > > <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk
> > > <mailto:andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I believe the option for a "warm standby" (which sounds like it is
> > >     what
> > >     you need) was made available in 8.2.0.
> > >     You'd have to look at the manual though, I haven't had time to
> > >     investigate, and I'm not sure whether it's cluster-wide, or
> > >     database-specific.
> > >
> > >     Yogvinder Singh wrote:
> > >     > Hi Ppl,
> > >     >
> > >     > I have Two PostgreSQL Database Servers. The situation is like
> >
> > this:-
> >
> > >     > 1) On first database server ball the operations (i.e live
> > >
> > >     server) will
> > >
> > >     > be done. This server may contain n number of databases.
> > >     >
> > >     > 2) On the second database server, i want to keep one particular
> > >     > database (from the first database server  ) and keep it updated
> > >
> > >     to the
> > >
> > >     > latest from the First Database Server. I just want to be able to
> > >
> > >     take
> > >
> > >     > some sort of incremental backup from the first server and restore
> >
> > it
> >
> > >     > to the second server.
> > >     >
> > >     > Is this situation feasible. How can i take an incremental backup
> > >
> > >     of a
> > >
> > >     > particular database out of many databases? On which version this
> >
> > is
> >
> > >     > supported? IF not supported, is there any alternative way to
> >
> > handle
> >
> > >     > this situatio.
> > >     >
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