Re: Backups

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> 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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