On 8/26/25 12:43, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am storing dumps of a database (pg_dump custom format) in a de-
> duplicating backup server. Each dump is many terabytes in size, so
> deduplication is very important. And de-duplication itself is based on
> rolling checksums which is pretty flexible, it can compensate for blocks
> moving by some offset.
>
> Unfortunately after I did pg_restore to a new server, I notice that the
> dumps from the new server are not being de-duplicated, all blocks are
> considered new.
What are the pg_dump/pg_restore commands?
What are the Postgres versions involved?
Are they community versions of Postgres or something else?
What is the depduplication program?
> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitris
>
>
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