Re: How do I set up automatic backups?

On 2008-07-29 23:47, John Cheng wrote:
> Slony-I replication is also a viable choice for backups.

No, it's not. Redundancy is not a substitute for backups. Slony will not
help you if you do by mistake "delete from important_table" - as a copy
will also have all rows deleted.

For backups I'd recommend for example pg_dump and duplicity run from cron.

Regards
Tometzky
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