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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Incidentally, I looked at this stuff just a couple of days ago, and it

[...]

> Or checkpoint, yes?  I don't see tar backing up large (100+GB)
> databases in < 5 minutes.

Checkpoinitng is definitely coolest. If your file system doesn't do
that, rsync is a good poor man's replacement:

  first rsync (takes long)
              (or work from an older backup)
  pg_start_backup(...)
  rsync (should be much faster)
  rsync WAL
  pg_stop_backup()

I regularly rsync moderately active 500GB filesystems on fairly feeble
hardware in about 5-10 minutes (for daily backups).

Regards
- -- tomás
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