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<chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title>
some previous point in time (say, right before the junior DBA dropped your
main transaction table), just specify the required stopping point in
<literal>recovery.conf</>. You can specify the stop point either by
- date/time or by transaction ID. As of this writing only the date/time
- option is very usable, since there are no tools to help you identify
- which transaction ID to use. Keep in mind that while transaction
- IDs are asigned sequentially at transaction start, transactions can
- complete in a different numeric order.
+ date/time or completion of a specific transaction ID. The stop
+ specification can be inclusive or exclusive. As of this writing
+ only the date/time option is very usable, since there are no tools
+ to help you identify which transaction ID to use. Keep in mind
+ that while transaction IDs are asigned sequentially at transaction
+ start, transactions can complete in a different numeric order.
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Note that the stop point must be after the ending time of the backup