Re: WAL and pg_dump

* Mike C (smith(dot)not(dot)western(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Yes, space is our limiting factor. A pg_dump archive format backup takes
> about 40mins for 25GB. A restore IIRC takes about 2 hours. However the size
> of the database is expected to grow to about 120 GB within a few months and
> by the end of 2006 over 400 GB. The current capacity of our DS 400 SAN is
> 600 GB. at 400GB my only backup option with the existing hardware is
> pg_dump. However I suspect now that I really should be looking at additional
> hardware.

Yeah, that pg_dump restore time is pretty rough.

As I recall, the initial backup of our 360GB (or so) database took
about 6 hours and the restore only took about 2 hours. One nice thing
(well, in a way I guess) was that the whole thing compressed down to
under 100GB. This was on an IBM DS4600 SAN (iirc, something along those
lines) with 5 320GB FC disks in a RAID-5.

I'm not really looking forward to the day I get to pg_dump and
pg_restore the whole thing to move to 8.1. :)

Thanks,

Stephen