On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis(at)gmx(dot)net> 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.
>
This might be a silly question, but why are you using -Fc to
create multi-TB dumps instead of -Fd? If nothing else, the parallelization
granted by -Fd will greatly speed up the dumps.
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