Re: pgBackRest for a 50 TB database

Greetings,

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 20:08 Abhishek Bhola <abhishek(dot)bhola(at)japannext(dot)co(dot)jp>
wrote:

> As said above, I tested pgBackRest on my bigger DB and here are the
> results.
> Server on which this is running has the following config:
> Architecture: x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order: Little Endian
> CPU(s): 36
> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-35
> Thread(s) per core: 1
> Core(s) per socket: 18
> Socket(s): 2
> NUMA node(s): 2
>
> Data folder size: 52 TB (has some duplicate files since it is restored
> from tapes)
> Backup is being written on to DELL Storage, mounted on the server.
>
> pgbackrest.conf with following options enabled
> repo1-block=y
> repo1-bundle=y
> start-fast=y
>

Thanks for sharing! Did you perhaps consider using zstd for the
compression..? You might find that you get similar compression in less
time.

Thanks.

Stephen