Re: Reducing pg_dump & pg_restore times

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>, Coder At Heart <coder(dot)at(dot)heart(at)gmail(dot)com>, "C(dot)M(dot) Shivkumar" <shivkumar(dot)cm(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Reducing pg_dump & pg_restore times
Date: 2006-10-27 03:50:45
Message-ID: 200610262350.46889.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Thursday 26 October 2006 02:20, Chris wrote:
> Coder At Heart wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Restore & backup take time in the tune of 6 hrs on a Linux, 4 proc, 32 G
> > RAM machine for a 60GB database.
>
> Please always cc the mailing list.
>
> I've never played with databases that large so I don't know if that's
> good or bad.. others on the list will be able to offer advice/suggestions.

A while back I wrote something up on increasing restore times, might be worth
checking out.
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/133-Getting-faster-database-restores-on-postgresql-8.1.html

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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