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    Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
    Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
    Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
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    Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

    By Shaun Thomas

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    Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This hands-on guide provides a quick and easy way to back up and restore your database using PostgreSQL. Written for database administrators who want to create backups of their critical enterprise data and efficiently restore it using PostgreSQL.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781782169116
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      Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to - Shaun Thomas

      Table of Contents

      Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why Subscribe?

      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

      Getting a basic export (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Restoring the export

      Exporting global objects

      Compressed backups

      Naming backups

      Partial database exports (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Compressed exports

      Table-only exports

      Schema-only exports

      Data and schema-only exports

      Restoring a database export (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Parallel database restore

      Database targeting

      Partial database restores

      Obtaining a binary backup (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Viewing backup progress

      Compressed tape archive backups

      Making the backup standalone

      Database clones

      Parallel compression

      Stepping into TAR backups (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Parallel compression

      Making a tar backup standby-ready

      Backing up tablespaces

      Backing up archived transaction logs

      Taking snapshots (Advanced)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Proper snapshot sizing

      Snapshot backup targets

      Synchronizing backup servers (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Speeding up rsync

      Whole file sync

      Exclude transaction logs

      Restoring a binary backup (Simple)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      No extract for rsync backups

      Remote data copies

      Point in time recovery (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Named restore points

      Timelines

      Warm and hot standby restore (Intermediate)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Trigger a backup online

      Backup database promotion

      Hot standby

      Asynchronous archival

      Streaming replication (Advanced)

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Synchronous backup

      Synchronous backup caveates

      Streaming backups

      Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

      Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

      Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing

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      First published: March 2013

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      Credits

      Author

      Shaun M. Thomas

      Reviewers

      Peter Eisentraut

      Robert H. Treat

      Acquisition Editor

      Martin Bell

      Commissioning Editor

      Yogesh Dalvi

      Technical Editor

      Veena Pagare

      Copy Editor

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      Project Coordinator

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      Proofreader

      Maria Gould

      Production Coordinator

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Shaun M. Thomas has been a database administrator for a long time, and has been working with PostgreSQL since late 2000. Over the years, he has contributed frequently to the PostgreSQL performance mailing list to help other DBAs get the most out of his favorite database. In 2011 and 2012, he presented at the Postgres Open conference on topics such as handling extreme throughput, high availability, server redundancy, and failover techniques.

      Currently, he serves as the database architect at OptionsHouse, an online options brokerage with a PostgreSQL database that handles over one billion queries per

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