On 22 Jun 2005 at 9:15, t_j_haynes wrote:

>On the ideas of taking regular hourly backups, I was thinking more in
>terms of a standby database which would perhaps be a minute or two
>behind, not an hour! Taking an incremental backup every minute would
>have to be a big drain on performance and rather unmanageable.

If I were you, I would think about multi-tier application with
automated crash recovery or replication...
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.