Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-09 Thread David Steele
On 7/3/15 8:08 AM, howardn...@selestial.com wrote: Thanks everyone. I am trying to move away from pg_dump as it is proving too slow. The size of the database clusters are approaching 1TB (with multiple individual compressed pg_dumps of around 100GB each, but the pace of change is relatively

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
On 07/03/2015 08:08 AM, howardn...@selestial.com wrote: I am trying to move away from pg_dump as it is proving too slow. Have you looked into barman? http://www.pgbarman.org Also, another potential approach is to setup replication and to do the backups from the slave. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 3 juil. 2015 12:03 PM, howardn...@selestial.com howardn...@selestial.com a écrit : Hi everyone, I am reaching the point with my database backups where the backups are taking too long, and starting to interfere with running of the system during the day. So I am looking for a bit of sage

[GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread howardn...@selestial.com
Hi everyone, I am reaching the point with my database backups where the backups are taking too long, and starting to interfere with running of the system during the day. So I am looking for a bit of sage advice as to how to proceed. For a typical server, I have a single database cluster

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread howardn...@selestial.com
On 03/07/2015 11:15, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: pg_dumpall is not more efficient than pg_dump. As far as I can tell, you're looking for PITR backups. Thanks Guillame. In that case is there any recommendation for how often to make base backups in relation to the size of the cluster and

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 3 juil. 2015 12:31 PM, howardn...@selestial.com howardn...@selestial.com a écrit : On 03/07/2015 11:15, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: pg_dumpall is not more efficient than pg_dump. As far as I can tell, you're looking for PITR backups. Thanks Guillame. In that case is there any

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread howardn...@selestial.com
On 03/07/2015 11:39, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: In that case is there any recommendation for how often to make base backups in relation to the size of the cluster and the size of the WAL? Nope, not really. That depends on a lot of things. Our customers usually do one per day. --

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 2015-07-03 13:00, schrieb howardn...@selestial.com: On 03/07/2015 11:39, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: In that case is there any recommendation for how often to make base backups in relation to the size of the cluster and the size of the WAL? Nope, not really. That depends on a lot of

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:16:02 +0200 Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: Am 2015-07-03 13:00, schrieb howardn...@selestial.com: On 03/07/2015 11:39, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: In that case is there any recommendation for how often to make base backups in relation to the size of the

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread howardn...@selestial.com
On 03/07/2015 12:23, Bill Moran wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:16:02 +0200 Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: Am 2015-07-03 13:00, schrieb howardn...@selestial.com: On 03/07/2015 11:39, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: In that case is there any recommendation for how often to make base backups

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Method

2015-07-03 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
På fredag 03. juli 2015 kl. 11:59:49, skrev howardn...@selestial.com howardn...@selestial.com mailto:howardn...@selestial.com: Hi everyone, I am reaching the point with my database backups where the backups are taking too long, and starting to interfere with running of the system during the

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-06 Thread Guy Fraser
On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 22:29 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:42 -0400, Bob Powell wrote: I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers (postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course includes all the files that pertain to my postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-06 Thread Douglas McNaught
Guy Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you suggest one does PITR ? It has been a while since I read the Docs, but do not recall any tools that allow one to do such a thing. PITR went in to 8.0 (IIRC); the docs for that version will cover it. -Doug ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-06 Thread Guy Fraser
On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 15:21 -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: Guy Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you suggest one does PITR ? It has been a while since I read the Docs, but do not recall any tools that allow one to do such a thing. PITR went in to 8.0 (IIRC); the docs for that

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-05 Thread Douglas McNaught
Bob Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone: I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers (postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course includes all the files that pertain to my postgres databases. I maintain that using pgdump and creating a

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-05 Thread Berend Tober
Bob Powell wrote: I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers (postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course includes all the files that pertain to my postgres databases. I maintain that using pgdump and creating a file of SQL commands for restore is a

Re: [GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:42 -0400, Bob Powell wrote: I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers (postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course includes all the files that pertain to my postgres databases. I maintain that using pgdump and creating a file

[GENERAL] Backup method

2006-04-05 Thread Bob Powell
Hello everyone: I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers (postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course includes all the files that pertain to my postgres databases. I maintain that using pgdump and creating a file of SQL commands for restore is a better