Thanks for a quick reply. The server has 6 cores, 6GB ram and top gets to 2.3-2.5 load average when running the dumpall. So I assume we are nowhere near this causing performance issues for users?
Thanks
Rich
On 15/03/12 12:21, Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:
Hi Richard,
it's no easy answer. If your server has plenty of free resources there won't be trouble, but I do have customers who cannot even imagine of launching a dump in normal traffic hours. How loaded is your box, currently?
Cheerio
Bèrto
On 15 March 2012 12:15, Richard Harley
<richard@scholarpack.com> wrote:
Hello all
Very simple question - does pg_dump/dumpall hit the server in terms of database performance? We currently do nightly backups and I want to move to hourly backups but not at the expense of hogging all the resources for 5 mins.
Pg_dumpall is currently producing a 1GB file - that's the combined size of around 30 databases and it takes around 5 mins to run.
Thanks
Rich
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