From: | Rui DeSousa <rui(at)crazybean(dot)net> |
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To: | richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_dump why no indicator of completion |
Date: | 2023-05-01 15:29:22 |
Message-ID: | 6FEB60CF-D7E0-41F6-B125-8D53C81CEE2B@crazybean.net |
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> On May 1, 2023, at 10:34 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> As I've asked Ron, if pg_dump isn't fit for purpose, then what do you believe is?
If you need a logical backup then pg_dump is the right tool; as noted before but with better options to improve performance.
For backups; I would recommend physical backups which there are many solutions for. I have personally used snapshots and believe that is the best solution. It is the fastest and best solution to meet recovery time objective (RTO). For example, I’m able to make a backup of a multi-terabyte database in under a second and multiple backups are cheap. This allows me to do a backup of the system every 6 hours. The most expensive part of a database restore is going to be applying the WAL files when doing a point in time recovery (PITR). This means that at most, I would only have to apply around 6 hours of WAL files; which can still take a long time given a high volume system.
In my opinion snapshots are the best solution but it will depend on your infrastructure and requires knowledge of the infrastructure and setting it up correctly.
If I could not use snapshots; I would look into either pgBackRest or pgBarman.
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