Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases!
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition - Third Edition

You're reading from  PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785883187
Pages 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. First Steps 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades

Incremental/differential backup and restore

If you have performance problems with a backup of a large PostgreSQL database, then you may consider incremental or differential backups.

An incremental backup is a backup of all files that have changed since the last full backup.
In order to perform a restore, you must restore the full backup and then each set of incremental changes.

A differential backup is a backup of all individual changes since the last full backup. Again, restore requires you to restore the full backup and then apply any changes since then.

How to do it...

To perform a differential physical backup, you can use rsync to compare the existing files against the previous full backup, and then overwrite only the...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}