Chapter 7. Backup and Recovery
Every database administrator has to take care of backups. In case of disaster, backups are essential for restoring data. But not only hard- and software errors demand backup strategies. Sometimes a user deletes files accidentally, and it is the administrator's task to restore these files.
In this chapter, you learn to back up PostgreSQL databases and see how data can be restored.
Common Errors
Mastering backups and recovery is perhaps one of the most important areas of database administration. However, the maintenance of restorable copies can, in many cases, be very difficult—especially on systems that have to do a lot of INSERT and UPDATE operations.
In general, you can make four mistakes when working with a database ...
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