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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Feb 22, 2010
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Bruce Momjian
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Briefly document in two places that pg_dump and pg_dumpall cannot be
used for continuous archiving.
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.14
3 2010/02/22 11:47:30 heikki
Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.14
4 2010/02/22 17:15:10 momjian
Exp $ -->
<chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title>
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@@ -484,6 +484,16 @@ tar -cf backup.tar /usr/local/pgsql/data
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<note>
<para>
<application>pg_dump</application> and
<application>pg_dumpall</application> do not produce file-system-level
backups and cannot be used as part of a continuous-archiving solution.
Such dumps are <emphasis>logical</> and do not contain enough
information to used by WAL reply.
</para>
</note>
<para>
As with the plain file-system-backup technique, this method can only
support restoration of an entire database cluster, not a subset.
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@@ -744,7 +754,9 @@ SELECT pg_start_backup('label', true);
<listitem>
<para>
Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool
such as <application>tar</> or <application>cpio</>. It is neither
such as <application>tar</> or <application>cpio</> (not
<application>pg_dump</application> or
<application>pg_dumpall</application>). It is neither
necessary nor desirable to stop normal operation of the database
while you do this.
</para>
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