Thanks Rory, the machine has the capacity to pull through pg_dumps but like u rightly mentioned incremental backups mean that we will need to work with the wal's.. 18TB is what is the scary part and with compression I dont see it being less than 2TB a day...
On 15/05/20, Suhail Bamzena (suhailsalem@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello All, > I have very recently inherited an 18 TB DB that is running version 9.2. > Apparently this database has never been backed up and I have been tasked to > set in a periodic backup routine (weekly full & daily incremental) and dump > it into a NAS. What is the best way to go about this? Did some reading and > hear that pgbackrest does a good job with such huge sizes. Your expert > advise is needed.
pgbackrest looks very cool but we haven't used it.
A very simple solution could be just to dump the database daily with pg_dump, if you have the space and machine capacity to do it. Depending on what you are storing, you can achieve good compression with this, and it is a great way of having a simple file from which to restore a database.
Our ~200GB cluster resolves to under 10GB of pg_dump files, although 18TB is a whole different order of size.
