Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to by Shaun Thomas

Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to by Shaun Thomas

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.

Shaun Thomas is a long time database administrator, 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 day. This database, he says, is proof that PostgreSQL is ready for the big time.He has great hopes for PostgreSQL as it continues to break new ground and make history.

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ISBN 13	9781782169109
ISBN 10	1782169105
Title	Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
Author	Shaun Thomas
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Packt Publishing Limited
Year published	2023-04-02
Number of pages	54
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