Re: time to restore a database

From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
To: pascal bérest <lists(at)magnetophone(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: time to restore a database
Date: 2003-01-14 17:51:56
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.1.20030115014900.02cb31e0@mbox.jaring.my
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At 12:19 PM 1/14/03 +0100, pascal bérest wrote:
>is it possible to estimate the time to restore a database from a dump ?
>the dump is 85 Mo, the base is 850 Mo, we have 512 Mo RAM and a pentium 3
>1.13 GHz.
>we are running for about 16 hours (20:00 CPU time) but it's really slow,
>and the database is actually 365 Mo restored.

Well you could look at your iostat values (to check IO bandwidth usage).
Might give you some clues, you should have a good guesstimate after a few
minutes into the restore into a test db.

Hope that helps,
Link.

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