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Re: How to increace nightly backup speed


  • From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
  • Cc: Andrus <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: How to increace nightly backup speed
  • Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:15:19 -0800
  • Message-id: <1164651319(dot)16182(dot)29(dot)camel(at)localhost(dot)localdomain>

> > 
> 
> You might try using online backups. By following the steps in this
> document:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html
> 
> you can back up the data at the speed of your filesystem. There's no way
> to make it faster than that.

Note however that you will want to apply the backups to the copied
version of the postgresql every night. Otherwise you are likely looking
at a very long restore process should you need to bring it up.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> Hope this helps,
>      Jeff Davis
> 
> 
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