Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup
Date: 2014-03-25 14:56:45
Message-ID: 5331992D.9010603@commandprompt.com
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On 03/25/2014 05:05 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:39 AM, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Hai,
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me the difference and performance between pgdump and
>>> pg_basebackup if I want to backup a large database.
>>>

Honestly,

Neither is particularly good at backing up large databases. I would look
into PITR with rsync.

JD

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