Re: PG backup performance

Hi Andy,
Thank you , please, see bellow my answers:
Andy Colson wrote:
>
> On 05/31/2010 11:05 AM, Isabella Ghiurea wrote:
> > Hello PG list,
> > I 'm looking for some tip, advice toimprove PG backups performance,
> > presently running
> > pg_dumpall compressed option on raid array 0 getting aprox14GB writes in
> > 45 min, I'm backing up aprox 200GB database cluster daily .
> > How can I improve this performance with the present hardware and PG
> > version 8.3.6 , can I run parallel backups in PG ?
> > Thank you
> > Isabella
> >
>
> Short answer, yes, you can.
> Long answer, we need more info.
>
> We need to know what the slow part is.
>
> Are you CPU bound
>
CPU
>
> or IO bound?
> Are you backing up over a network?
>
No , on locally disks
>
> How many tables? (well, big tables... how many really big tables).
>
Around 20 big tables all of them in a one separate schema on separate
tables space from rest of other schemas. I already start backing up
individuals schema.
My big concern is IF I have to recover from backups will take me at
least twice as much time around 1-2 days I expect.
>
> How many cores/cpu's do you have?
>
4 quad core CPU server. How can I make PG to use multi threading?
>
>
> I bet all 200GB hardly changes, are you sure you need to back it all
> up over and over again? Have you thought of replication?
>
Yes, but waiting for a more robust build in replication PG version
aka PG 9.1.
Isabella

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