Re: PGbackrest very slow! - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 19:22, Ron Johnson

<ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2025, at 2:59 AM, Pär Mattsson <par.x.mattsson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> The backup of 50GB took 40 min.
> It is not a network issue. I tested to transfer 2GB between two host and it took 4 sec.
>
> I think backup-standby=y slows down the backup out of all minds.
>
> Br Pär

pgbackrest defaults to gzip compression, which is slow--try lz4 and see what happens

lz4 is faster, but not 1440x faster.

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