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<glossentry id="glossary-incremental-backup"> |
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<glossterm>Incremental backup</glossterm> |
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A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-basebackup">base backup</glossterm> |
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that for some files may contain only those pages that were modified since |
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a previous backup, as opposed to the full contents of every file. Like |
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base backups, it is generated by the tool <xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"/>. |
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To restore incremental backups the tool <xref linkend="app-pgcombinebackup"/> |
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is used, which combines incremental backups with a base backup and |
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<glossterm linkend="glossary-wal">WAL</glossterm> to restore a |
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<glossterm linkend="glossary-db-cluster">database cluster</glossterm> to |
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a consistent state. |
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</para> |
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For more information, see <xref linkend="backup-incremental-backup"/>. |
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<glossterm>Insert</glossterm> |
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<glossentry id="glossary-wal-summarizer"> |
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<glossterm>WAL summarizer (process)</glossterm> |
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A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-backend">backend process</glossterm> |
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that summarizes WAL data for |
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<glossterm linkend="glossary-incremental-backup">incremental backups</glossterm>. |
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For more information, see <xref linkend="runtime-config-wal-summarization"/>. |
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<glossterm>WAL writer (process)</glossterm> |
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