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Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
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Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

by Shaun Thomas
March 2013
Beginner
54 pages
1h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

Welcome to PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to. Here, we'll explore the proper, secure, and reliable methods for preserving mission-critical data. More importantly, we'll tell you how to get that data back! PostgreSQL provides several handy tools for both basic SQL exports and binary backup, which we will combine with more advanced techniques for a complete toolkit. By the end of this book, you should have a full array of options that you can automate for worry-free backups.

Getting a basic export (Simple)

We will start with pg_dumpall, the most basic PostgreSQL backup tool. This single command-line utility can export the entire database instance at once. We want to start with this particular ...

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