When making a backup of my database I run out of space. I tell it to
put the backup file on my K: drive, which has tons of free space, but
during the backup postgresql creates a temporary folder on my C: Drive
where it initially writes data. I don't have enough space on my C:
drive for all the da
> Reading between the lines, I suspect you are trying to use 'tar' output
> format, which does have a need to make temp files that can be large.
> If I guessed right, I'd suggest using 'custom' format instead. There
> really is no advantage to tar format, and several disadvantages besides
> this o
Thanks. Changing the environmental variable has solved that issue.
It ultimately required 13GB of free space to create a 2GB backup file.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> Farhan Malik wrote:
>>
>> That sounds right. The error I get from the software is 2
When making a backup of my database I run out of space. I tell it to
put the backup file on my K: drive, which has tons of free space, but
during the backup postgresql creates a temporary folder on my C: Drive
where it initially writes data. I don't have enough space on my C:
drive for all the da
