Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC)

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC)
Date: 2007-09-06 19:31:02
Message-ID: 20070906193102.GI1090@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:08:10PM +0200, apoc9009 wrote:
> >archive_timeout setting. It will produce a lot of log files with very
> >little content in them, but they will compress well.
> >
> Yes, it is possible but not recommended . My Backup Servers Filesystem
> will explode :D

. . .

> Correct, but this is not good enought and i think there are a lot of
> Peoples having the same Problem.
> It was wishfull, having a Online Streaming Backupsubsystem, thadt can
> produce portable Backupdatabases,
> to prevent users for Millions of Archive Files on the Backup FTP-Server.

It seems that what you want is near-real-time online backups with _no
cost_, which is not a feature that I think anyone will ever work on.

A

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