Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

Thanks James... that is reassuring, will be working on it this week.

On Mon, 18 May 2020, 04:33 James Sewell, <james(dot)sewell(at)jirotech(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 17:09, Suhail Bamzena <suhailsalem(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello All,
>> I have very recently inherited an 18 TB DB that is running version 9.2.
>> Apparently this database has never been backed up and I have been tasked to
>> set in a periodic backup routine (weekly full & daily incremental) and dump
>> it into a NAS. What is the best way to go about this? Did some reading and
>> hear that pgbackrest does a good job with such huge sizes. Your expert
>> advise is needed.
>>
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> Just chiming in for pgbackrest - we are backing up multiple databases in
> the 50TB - 150TB range across multiple customers and it works very well
> (and most importantly at that scale, very efficiently).
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> I've found the team really responsive to issues / bugs / errors reported
> via GitHub when we hit them, which is always a bonus.
>
> James Sewell,
> *Chief Architect, Jirotech*
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