| From: | Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(at)campbell-lange(dot)net> |
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| To: | Suhail Bamzena <suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, pgeu-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup |
| Date: | 2020-05-15 13:35:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20200515133533.GA27313@campbell-lange.net |
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On 15/05/20, Suhail Bamzena (suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Thanks Rory, the machine has the capacity to pull through pg_dumps but like
> u rightly mentioned incremental backups mean that we will need to work with
> the wal's.. 18TB is what is the scary part and with compression I dont see
> it being less than 2TB a day...
I suggest you try one immediately, assuming you can dump it somewhere
and the machine has the resources. Then you will at least have a backup
and a sense of what is possible. (Which will help inform your upgrade
strategy too.)
Rory
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