On Apr 23, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Gabor Siklos wrote:
> I need to back up our database off-site for disaster recovery. If I
> just back up the entire database data directory (i.e. /var/lib/pgsql/
> data) will I be able to restore from there? Or should I instead just
> dump the data, using pg_dump, and back up the dump?
>
> The advantage of the first method would be that I would not have to
> wait for pg_dump (it takes quite long on our 60G+ database) and
> would just be able to configure the backup agent to monitor the data
> directory and do differential backups of the files there every hour
> or so.
>
> Your suggestions are much appreciated!
>
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