Having worked with PostgreSQL continuously since 2001, I'd like to think there's nothing I don't know about backing up and restoring. However, experience shows that a) it's all too easy to develop "muscle memory" for a certain way of doing things, and b) PostgreSQL has a pesky habit of developing new nifty features which fly under the radar if you're not paying sufficient attention to the release notes, so any opportunity to review things from a fresh perspective is a welcome one.
I ordered the paper version of " PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to " from Amazon Japan for a tad under 2,000 yen, which is a little on the expensive side for what was described as a "booklet" (and four times the price of the eBook version), but I have a (meagre) book budget to burn and I have this old-fashioned habit of scribbling notes on margins and making little bookmarks from Post-It notes etc., also it's nice to spend some time not staring at a screen. To my surprise it arrived less than 48 hours after ordering - upon closer examination it turned out the book was actually printed by Amazon in Japan, which is kind of nifty.
First impression: it's a very thin volume - 42 actual content pages - so is genuinely a booklet. On the other hand, bearing in mind I've got a bookshelf full of largely unread weighty tomes, less can be more.
The booklet's table of contents, as lifted directly from the publisher's site, is:
Getting a basic export (Simple) Partial database exports (Simple) Restoring a database export (Simple) Obtaining a binary backup (Simple) Stepping int TAR backups (Intermediate) Taking snapshots (Advanced) Synchronizing backup servers (Intermediate) Restoring a binary backup (Simple) Point in time recovery (Intermediate) Warm and hot standby restore (Intermediate) Streaming replication (Advanced)