In this chapter, you have learned about creating backups and dumps in general. So far, binary backups have not been covered, but you are already able to extract textual backups from the server to save and replay your data in the most simplistic way possible.
In Chapter 10, Making Sense of Backups and Replication, will be about transaction log shipping, streaming replication, and binary backups. You will learn how to use PostgreSQL onboard tools to replicate instances.
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