Re: Suggestions needed about how to dump/restore a database

One other option is to shut the database down competely, and then do a copy
of the file system the new server. I have done this when I need to move a
very large database to a new server. I can copy 500GB's in a couple of
hours, where restoring my large databases backups would take 10+ hours.
Just make sure you are keeping postgres at the same version level.

HTH,

Chris

On 12/19/06, Arnau <arnaulist(at)andromeiberica(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a DB in production that is bigger than 2GB that dumping it
> takes more than 12 hours. I have a new server to replace this old one
> where I have restore the DB's dump. The problem is I can't afford to
> have the server out of business for so long, so I need your advice about
> how you'd do this dump/restore. The big amount of data is placed in two
> tables (statistics data), so I was thinking in dump/restore all except
> this two tables and once the server is running again I'd dump/restore
> this data. The problem is I don't know how exactly do this.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Arnau
>
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