Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-16 Thread Renato Oliveira
red office address: 29 Station Road, Shepreth, CAMBS SG8 6GB UK -Original Message- From: Josh Kupershmidt [mailto:schmi...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 February 2010 15:30 To: Renato Oliveira Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup Importance: High On Feb 12, 2010,

Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-16 Thread Renato Oliveira
February 2010 19:31 To: Renato Oliveira; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup Backing up a 170GB in 28 hours definitely doesn't sound right and I almost certain has nothing to do with pg_dump, but rather your hardware, ie, server, disk, etc. with a 170GB, backup should be

Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-12 Thread Tomeh, Husam
gards, Husam -Original Message- From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Renato Oliveira Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:59 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup Importance: High Dear all, I have a s

Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-12 Thread Renato Oliveira
England, registration number 658133 Registered office address: 29 Station Road, Shepreth, CAMBS SG8 6GB UK -Original Message- From: Josh Kupershmidt [mailto:schmi...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 February 2010 15:30 To: Renato Oliveira Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP

Re: [ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-12 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:58 AM, Renato Oliveira wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a server running 8.2.4 and has a database 170GB in size. > Currently I am backing it up using pg_dump and it takes around 28 hours, > sadly. That's suspiciously slow for a pg_dump alone. I have a ~168 GB database which

[ADMIN] PG_DUMP backup

2010-02-12 Thread Renato Oliveira
Dear all, I have a server running 8.2.4 and has a database 170GB in size. Currently I am backing it up using pg_dump and it takes around 28 hours, sadly. I was asked to check and compare the newly created DUMP file to the live database and compare records. I personally cannot see an easy or quic

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump backup problems with password authentication

2000-12-07 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi again, I would like to thank Vasileiadis Spyros, Michael Ansley and Richard Poole who all pointed out the nature of the problem and the correct solution. SUMMARY The original situation was this: 1) I had changed authentication in pg_hba.conf from trust to password 2) This gave me a probl

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump backup problems with password authentication

2000-12-07 Thread Richard Poole
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:07:17PM +, Ricardo Dias Marques wrote: > So, I did a man pg_dump and found out that -u would prompt > for username and password, and -v would give a verbose output. > And so I did: > pg_dump -u -v dbname > dbname.pgdump > > > The problem is when I press the ENTER

[ADMIN] pg_dump backup problems with password authentication

2000-12-07 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi all, I am using PostgreSQL 7.0.2 in RedHat Linux 6.2 I have changed the default authentication, in the pg_hba.conf file, from trust to password. Unfortunately, this is giving me problems with pg_dump I am trying to do a copy of just one database (with all its tables, primary and foreign ke