On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Steve Poe wrote:
> Vivek,
>
> What methods of backup do you recommend for medium to large
> databases? In our example, we have a 20GB database and it takes 2
> hrs to load from a pg_dump file.
>
my largest db is about 60Gb with indexes. reloading the data (about
30Gb) takes 1 hour from compressed format pg_dump, and another two to
reindex.
for increasing reload size, bump your checkpoint_segments to
something big, like 128 or 256 depending on how much disk space you
can spare for it.
