Re: More efficient pg_restore method?

Ron,

A couple of starting questions:

What is the size and latency of the network pipe between the primary and backup servers?
What is the size of the database you need to restore?
Is there a reason not to do a network copy of the backup directory contents to the database server and run the pg_restore locally?

Cheers,

- Evan

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> On Aug 28, 2018, at 12:48, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Pg 9.6.9 on Linux...
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> Given a backup server storing a "format=directory" database backup, and a database server, should I:
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> Option #1: run pg_restore on the backup server and "push" the data to the database server via port 5432, or
> Option #2: have the backup server serve the dump directory via NFS, and run pg_restore on the database server, pulling the data via nfs protocol?
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> (It'll be a multi-threaded restore over a 10Gb pipe.)
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