Re: Backup

Hi,
you can refer the following link where many backup methods are mentioned
according to your need.

Backups in PostgreSQL. In PostgreSQL, different types of… | by Usman Khan |
Aug, 2024 | Medium
<https://medium.com/@usman.khan9805/backups-in-postgresql-2fca57c2872b>

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 at 00:37, Andy Hartman <hartman60home(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I am very new to Postgres and have always worked in the mssql world. I'm
> looking for suggestions on DB backups. I currently have a DB used to store
> Historical information that has images it's currently around 100gig.
>
> I'm looking to take a monthly backup as I archive a month of data at a
> time. I am looking for it to be compressed and have a machine that has
> multiple cpu's and ample memory.
>
> Suggestions on things I can try ?
> I did a pg_dump using these parms
> --format=t --blobs lobarch
>
> it ran my device out of storage:
>
> pg_dump: error: could not write to output file: No space left on device
>
> I have 150gig free on my backup drive... can obviously add more
>
> looking for the quickest and smallest backup file output...
>
> Thanks again for help\suggestions
>
>