How to backup a postgreSQL of 80 GByte ?

From: Michelle Konzack <linux(dot)mailinglists(at)freenet(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How to backup a postgreSQL of 80 GByte ?
Date: 2002-12-19 23:55:34
Message-ID: 3E01647500113FB2@mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr
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Hello,

I am running a postgreSQL under Debian/GNU-Linux 3.0r0 and a Ultra-
ATA-133 RAID-1 with three 120 GByte IBM-Drives.

Now I have the Problem to backup the stuff.

I was thinking, to export all tables seperately to text files, gzip
and backup it. There will be around 830.000 millons tables !

How can I do effectiv backup so that I can get informationd from it,
if all other fails...

The Textfiles are perfectly in general, because you can get infos
with an editor or browsing with mc ;-))

Any suggestins are welcome...

Oh yes, I like to backup to my CD-R55S and I like to know, whats the
ratio from a compressed (gzip'ed) database ?

Thanks in advance
Michelle

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