Le 3 juil. 2015 12:03 PM, "howardnews@selestial.com" <howardnews@selestial.com> a écrit :
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> Hi everyone,
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> I am reaching the point with my database backups where the backups are taking too long, and starting to interfere with running of the system during the day. So I am looking for a bit of sage advice as to how to proceed.
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> For a typical server, I have a single database cluster with multiple database that I backup nightly using sequential pg_dumps to NFS.
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> So what I am looking for is a backup regime with less impact that will run overnight but faster or less impact than the pg_dump.
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> Would a file system backup be the better option in PITR format, or is pg_dumpall more efficient than pg_dump?
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pg_dumpall is not more efficient than pg_dump. As far as I can tell, you're looking for PITR backups.
