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Point-in-Time Recovery with Postgres

Grant Fritchey restores some backups:

PostgreSQL has the capabilities to support backups as I already described in my first article on the topic. PostgreSQL also has the capability to restore to a point in time. However, that does require you to change the way you’re performing your backups. This article advances our understanding of how to better protect your PostgreSQL databases by expanding on the database backups and restores into a more full-blown disaster recovery process through point in time restores.

While the important part is the restore, in a classic chicken or egg conundrum, we can’t talk about restoring until we first have a backup, so I’ll start with how you need to backup your databases in preparation for a point in time restore.

Click through for the process and to see it in action.

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