Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

Depending on your storage subsystem, perhaps storage-level snapshots might be an option? They often seem to be the best choice for VLDBs.

From: Suhail Bamzena <suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 7:23 AM
To: Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>
Cc: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(at)campbell-lange(dot)net>; pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org; pgeu-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

Hi Christoph
Thats very high on my agenda.. but need to make sure i can backup this beast to start with..
On Fri, 15 May 2020, 17:08 Christoph Berg, <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de<mailto:christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>> wrote:
Re: Rory Campbell-Lange
> On 15/05/20, Suhail Bamzena (suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com<mailto:suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com>) wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I have very recently inherited an 18 TB DB that is running version 9.2.

Push hard to get that upgraded to a supported version.

Christoph