Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
A step-by-step guide to backing up and restoring your database using safe, efficient, and proven recipes
Published on 13. January 2025
54 pages
978-1-78216-911-6 (ISBN)
Description
A step-by-step guide to backing up and restoring your database using safe, efficient, and proven recipes
Key Features
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Back up and restore PostgreSQL databases
Use built-in tools to create simple backups
Restore the easy way with internal commands
Cut backup and restore time with advanced techniques
Book DescriptionBacking up a database is something that all system admins must eventually face. Larger warehouses and critical enterprise data requires advanced techniques and tools to handle this complex data. PostgreSQL provides you with the basic tools for accomplishing this complex task. "Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to" is a practical series of proven recipes showing you how to preserve critical business data, and also teach you some advanced methods for restoring this data. It is a perfect manual for managing your critical PostgreSQL data. Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to is your practical guide to the unique features that PostgreSQL offers to create quick backups and efficient restores. Starting by backing up a simplistic database and learning how-to restore it to working order, we then move on to more complex backup techniques including creating and restoring binary backups. Covering advanced topics such as Warm and Hot standby restore and Streaming replication, Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to gives you the power to make complete backups to guarantee you will always be able to restore your database to full working order!What you will learn
Target specific data with partial dump and restore
Explore SQL-only techniques for smaller databases
Drastically reduce restore time using Parallel SQL
Create easy binary backups and clones with built-in tools
Slash backup times with parallel compression
Harness file system snapshots for stable online binary backups
Synchronize multiple databases as standby backup servers
Who this book is forWritten for database administrators who want to create backups of their critical enterprise data and efficiently restore it using PostgreSQL.
Key Features
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Back up and restore PostgreSQL databases
Use built-in tools to create simple backups
Restore the easy way with internal commands
Cut backup and restore time with advanced techniques
Book DescriptionBacking up a database is something that all system admins must eventually face. Larger warehouses and critical enterprise data requires advanced techniques and tools to handle this complex data. PostgreSQL provides you with the basic tools for accomplishing this complex task. "Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to" is a practical series of proven recipes showing you how to preserve critical business data, and also teach you some advanced methods for restoring this data. It is a perfect manual for managing your critical PostgreSQL data. Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to is your practical guide to the unique features that PostgreSQL offers to create quick backups and efficient restores. Starting by backing up a simplistic database and learning how-to restore it to working order, we then move on to more complex backup techniques including creating and restoring binary backups. Covering advanced topics such as Warm and Hot standby restore and Streaming replication, Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to gives you the power to make complete backups to guarantee you will always be able to restore your database to full working order!What you will learn
Target specific data with partial dump and restore
Explore SQL-only techniques for smaller databases
Drastically reduce restore time using Parallel SQL
Create easy binary backups and clones with built-in tools
Slash backup times with parallel compression
Harness file system snapshots for stable online binary backups
Synchronize multiple databases as standby backup servers
Who this book is forWritten for database administrators who want to create backups of their critical enterprise data and efficiently restore it using PostgreSQL.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-911-6 (9781782169116)
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Shaun Thomas
Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
Book
03/2013
Packt Publishing
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Shaun Thomas has been experimenting with PostgreSQL since late 2000 and serves as a database consultant, teacher, blogger, and support engineer with 2ndQuadrant. He has presented at conferences such as Postgres Open, 2Q PGCONF, and PgConf on topics such as handling extreme throughput, high availability, failover techniques, monitoring tools, database architecture, multi-master conflict avoidance, and high availability upgrade concepts. He believes in a multi-disciplinary approach when it comes to high availability.He believes that PostgreSQL has a stupendous future ahead, and he can't wait to see the advancements subsequent versions will bring.
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