| From: | "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, thm(at)duke(dot)edu |
| Subject: | Re: Long term database archival |
| Date: | 2006-07-07 00:03:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1152230588l.4335l.4l@mofo |
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On 07/06/2006 06:14:39 PM, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the best pg_dump format for long-term database
>> archival? That is, what format is most likely to
>> be able to be restored into a future PostgreSQL
>> cluster.
> Anyway, 20 years is a _long_, _long_ time.
Yes, but our data goes back over 30 years now
and is never deleted, only added to, and I
recently had occasion to want to look at a
backup from 1994-ish. So, yeah we probably do
really want backups for that long. They
probably won't get used, but we'll feel better.
Thanks.
Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
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