Re: 2.5TB Migration from SATA to SSD disks - PostgreSQL 9.2

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 2.5TB Migration from SATA to SSD disks - PostgreSQL 9.2
Date: 2016-09-06 15:51:22
Message-ID: CALd+dcdcG+oJLbUh7fPxkDb2cWxiEV2CYD9scS1wz1y0zhseyg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> That's great news! My only concern is about the "RSYNC" - Hope that doesn't
> take long!!!
>
> This all steps must be performed by me on the next few days/weeks - I'll
> keep you guys updated... Keen to see the new DB running in a SSD environment
> :)

That will depend on your database change velocity. If the initial copy
takes a long time, Re-run the rsync again just before the shut down.
Try to pick the lowest load time.

For sure rsync can take a long time. I've also done similar moves
using ZFS snapshots, which are crazy fast to sync... but that assumes
you're using ZFS already on the current data directory.

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