March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
12h 36m
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 in this chapter is about understanding and controlling crash recovery. You need to understand what happens if a database server crashes so that you can understand whether you 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 ...