Re: Postgres DB backup is taking too much time - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Gerald Drouillard
Subject Re: Postgres DB backup is taking too much time
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Msg-id CAC_Y+MA5Lxk=GpHf14ZQoJmOUjBj5YREYUvhNdDni9=4-y=+ig@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Postgres DB backup is taking too much time  (masheed ullah <masheedullah@gmail.com>)
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You could setup a replication to another PG server that is setup on a COW file system like zfs.
Then you can take snapshots on the replica.


On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 5:59 AM masheed ullah <masheedullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you every one for your output.

Although pgBeckRest has no more support. 
Should I suggest starting testing backup and restore with pgBectRest?
I did not find any 3rd Party tool.

On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 12:29 PM Ilya Anfimov <ilan@tzirechnoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 12:42:21PM +0300, masheed ullah wrote:
>    Hi,
>    We have a database of 20TB, and it's taking almost 24 hours to complete.
>    While full restore takes 28 hours. Although we have HA enabled with
>    primary and multiple replica's.
>    So we need a solution/tool to reduce the RTO, incase of disk failure/
>    Human error for data/tables deletion.
>
>    We are using Barman for backup.

 First, you'd need engineers to measure -- what's going on.
 Who  is the slowest part? The network (most probable)? The post-
gres replication process? The disk that postgres reads? The  bar-
man  itself?  Receiver  disks/S3  daemon/etc?  TLS  of one of the
above?
 Measures is the key. Then the solutions may be searched.

btw, a modern postgres can definitely supply 1GB/s to barman on a
modern  system.   This  is  not a much, and probably could be im-
proved by special tricks like rsync or manual prefetch or  incre-
mental  copies  --  however,  it's less than 6 hours estimate and
therefore is fine for you.

>    My question is "Are there any tools like ZDLRA appliances for Oracle" to
>    reduce the RTO to less than 10 hours".
>    Best Regards,
>    Khattak






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