Re: [GENERAL] fast-archiver tool, useful for pgsql DB backups

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 15:48 -0600, Mathieu Fenniak wrote: Hi pgsql-general, Has anyone else ever noticed how slow it can be to rsync or tar a pgdata directory with hundreds of thousands or millions of files? Yes:

[GENERAL] fast-archiver tool, useful for pgsql DB backups

2012-08-24 Thread Mathieu Fenniak
Hi pgsql-general, Has anyone else ever noticed how slow it can be to rsync or tar a pgdata directory with hundreds of thousands or millions of files? I thought this could be done faster with a bit of concurrency, so I wrote a little tool called fast-archiver to do so. My employer (Replicon) has