On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Alex Thurlow <alex-reports@blastro.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 3:28 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
......
> How long is this backup taking? I have a ~100GB database that I back up
> with pg_dump (which compresses as it dumps if you want it to) and that only
> takes 35 minutes. Granted, I have it on some fast SCSI drives in RAID 1,
> but even a single SATA drive should still finish in a decent amount of time.
Hi Alex, could you share what exact command you use? Mine are SCSI
too, in RAID 10, but the dump takes over 2-3 hours (60 GB database)
and the CPU consumption during this time is huge.
Thanks!
