Re: Backup_Long Running

PgBackRest is in the PGDG repositories (RHEL & Debian).

The documentation is thorough, and discoverable via Google,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 8:30 AM jaya kumar <kumardba27(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Thanks for your update. Can you have any link or document to configure L0
> & L1 backup using pgbackrest tool. Also share the pgbackrest installation
> method.
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 2:50 PM Vijaykumar Jain <
> vijaykumarjain(dot)github(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 12:33 PM jaya kumar <kumardba27(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Production database Backup is running very long hours. Any option to
>>> reduce backup time? Kindly advise me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> DB size: 793 GB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are taking pg_basebackup backup.
>>>
>>>
>> do you see network saturation, io saturation ?
>> generally faster hardware i.e striped and or nvme disks along with a
>> robust network link and capacity should help get the backup done quickly.
>> where are you taking the backup from? is the server busy doing other work
>> or it is a dedicated machine for backups ?
>> basically monitor for resource saturation, if all looks good, we could
>> take basebackup of a 10tb db in 8 hours, and in another case on a slow
>> remote storage, backup of 2tb took 1 day.
>>
>> now, pgbackrest can speedup backup processes by spawning more workers for
>> archiving and stuff. we have taken backup on nvme disks striped of 28tb in
>> 3 hours, bare metals servers with powerful cpu.
>>
>> so , it's hardware .... else switch to pgbackrest which can take
>> incremental/differential/full backups.
>> there are other tools too, I used only these two.
>>
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Jayakumar.S
> +91-9840864439.
>