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

Hi,

12h is a lot. i use the copy statement with binary option. this is
faster and takes less space.
try pg_dump with schema only and export your 2 tables with 2 single
statements. in that way i can
export my db in less than 3min without downtime (pg_dump produces a 9gb
file, binary dump 4.4gb)

Thomas

Arnau schrieb:
> 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