On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> Back up the master with pg_dump.  There's a special utility that
> ships with slony that allows you to back up a replica.  It _does not_
> allow you to back up the slave so that you would not have to rebuild
> were it to break.

I do schema dump from the origin, and data-only dumps from the  
replica.  Lowers the load on the origin server which is quite busy  
already :-(

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