| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | richard(at)scholarpack(dot)com |
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| Subject: | Re: Backups |
| Date: | 2012-03-15 14:25:15 |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:15 AM, 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.
I'd suggest you look at using PITR backups.
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