On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:43:28PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
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> On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Steve Poe wrote:
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> >Vivek,
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> >What methods of backup do you recommend for medium to large
> >databases? In our example, we have a 20GB database and it takes 2
> >hrs to load from a pg_dump file
On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Steve Poe wrote:
Vivek,
What methods of backup do you recommend for medium to large
databases? In our example, we have a 20GB database and it takes 2
hrs to load from a pg_dump file.
my largest db is about 60Gb with indexes. reloading the data (about
30G
Vivek,What methods of backup do you recommend for medium to large databases? In our example, we have a 20GB database and it takes 2 hrs to load from a pg_dump file.Thanks.Steve Poe
On 10/17/06, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We just ta
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:We just tar/gzip the entire data directory. It takes all of 20 sec. We've successfully restored from that also. The machine you are restoring to *must* be running the save version of postgresql you backed up from. If you successfully backed u
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> We just tar/gzip the entire data directory. It takes all of 20 sec. We've
> successfully restored from that also.
You've been very lucky ... unless you stopped the postmaster while
taking the backup. Without that, this method WILL screw you someday.
(But as long as
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Re: [GENERAL] Fast backup/restore
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 16:29 +0530, Gandalf wrote:
> I am looking for a *fast* backup/restore tools for Postgres. I've
> found th
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 16:29 +0530, Gandalf wrote:
> I am looking for a *fast* backup/restore tools for Postgres. I've
> found the current used tools pg_dump and pg_restore to be very slow on
> large databases (~30-40GB). Restore takes time in the tune of 6 hrs on
> a Linux, 4 proc, 32 G RAM machine
Gandald,have a look athttp://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/administration.pdfpage 44ffThere are descriptions how to do database-backups at the speed of raw file system operations.
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