Re: Backup and failover process

>>> "Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu> wrote:
> PostgreSQL: 8.2
> I am about to change my backup and failover procedure from dumping a
full
> file SQL dump of our data every so many minutes

You're currently running pg_dump every so many minutes?

> to using WAL files.

Be sure you have read (and understand) this section of the docs:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/backup.html

-Kevin