Re: How to backup a postgreSQL of 80 GByte ?

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> I was thinking, to export all tables seperately to text files, gzip
> and backup it. There will be around 830.000 millons tables !

Ignoring the more important hardware issue, you should consider
using bzip2 instead of gzip, which can save you a lot of disk space
at the cost of a slightly higher time to compress. The built in
checksums and the bzip2recover program are nice things to have as
well.

I am not sure how many tables you actually have, but saving them
all to separate files may not be the most officient way: consider
having pg_dump do more than one table, or consider tarring many
tables into one file. Midnight Commander can also read tar files.

Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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