Re: Backup of a big DB with a lot of large objects

[Steve Holdoway <steve(dot)holdoway(at)firetrust(dot)com>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:12:31 +0200
"Milen A. Radev" <milen(at)radev(dot)net> wrote:

> We have a big DB that's backuped nightly using pg_dump in the custom
> format. Most of its size are several thousand large objects. During
> the dump of those LO the machine is heavily loaded so we are looking
> for a way to "optimise" that part of backup process. We had an idea to
> backup the DB but without the LO and to dump nightly only those LO
> that were changed or added since the last backup. Unfortunately in
> v8.1 (we use 8.1.5) there is no way to dump a whole database without
> the LO.
> 
> Any ideas for a less taxing backup process?
> 
> -- 
> Milen A. Radev
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Replicate it???