On 12/26/2012 10:43 AM, Sean Upton wrote:
For cron job RelStorage backups (databse not including blobs backed-up
seperately, using a PostgreSQL 9.0.x backend), I use both zodbconvert
to save FileStorage copies of my database, and pgdump for low-level
binary dumps (pg_restore custom format, preserving postgres OIDs).
bzip2-compressed, the pgdump backups are always ~2.5 times the size
versus the compressed FileStorage -- this puzzles me.
I'm using something in my bash backup script that looks like:
$PGDUMP -Fc -o -h $SOCKET_HOST -p $SOCKET_PORT $dbname | bzip2 -c -
$DESTDIR/pgdump-$dbname-$DATESTAMP.bz2
One database that backs up to 45MB bz2-compressed FileStorage file
equates to a 123MB bz2-compressed pgdump custom-format file. I would
expect such a ratio in running size, but not in compressed backups of
similar data.
Generally, I'm wondering, for the same data, what it is that makes my
high-level FileStorage dump so much smaller in comparison to the
lower-level pgdump alternative? Anyone with hunches or PostgreSQL
kung-fu to add insight?
My guess is the Postgres blob backup format is inefficient. Also, you
are probably backing up the tables used for packing. You might want to
use the -T option to exclude the pack tables, but then you'll have to
create empty pack tables when restoring.
Side-note: the zodbconvert script seems a perfectly viable mechanism
for ZODB backup (regardless of whether one uses a RelStorage backend),
but I am not sure if anyone else does this.
I agree that zodbconvert is a good way to back up the database, although
it might not be as fast as pg_dump.
Shane
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