Re: Backups

Thanks for a quick reply. The server has 6 cores, 6GB ram and top gets
to 2.3-2.5 load average when running the dumpall. So I assume we are
nowhere near this causing performance issues for users?
Thanks
Rich

On 15/03/12 12:21, Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> it's no easy answer. If your server has plenty of free resources there
> won't be trouble, but I do have customers who cannot even imagine of
> launching a dump in normal traffic hours. How loaded is your box,
> currently?
>
> Cheerio
> Bèrto
>
> On 15 March 2012 12:15, Richard Harley <richard(at)scholarpack(dot)com
> <mailto:richard(at)scholarpack(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hello all
>
> Very simple question - does pg_dump/dumpall hit the server in
> terms of database performance? We currently do nightly backups and
> I want to move to hourly backups but not at the expense of hogging
> all the resources for 5 mins.
>
> Pg_dumpall is currently producing a 1GB file - that's the combined
> size of around 30 databases and it takes around 5 mins to run.
>
> Thanks
> Rich
>
>
>
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