May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Most people admit that backups are essential, though they also devote a very small amount of time to thinking about the topic.
The first recipe is about understanding and controlling crash recovery. You need to understand what happens if the database server crashes so that you can understand when you might need to perform a recovery operation.
The next recipe is all about planning. That's really the best place to start before you perform backups.
The physical backup mechanisms here were initially written by Simon Riggs (one of the authors of this book) for PostgreSQL 8.0 in 2004, and have been supported by him ever since, now with increasing help from the community as its popularity grows. 2ndQuadrant has also been providing ...