On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM Dimitrios Apostolou <ji...@gmx.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. -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
