Re: backup problem

If your backup file still hit that limit even after being compressed,
you may want to use the split command to split it into chunks with the
desired size that suit your O/S.
Check out this PostgreSQL doc page on handling large databases:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup.html

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of renneyt(at)yahoo(dot)com
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:46 AM
To: Jyry Kuukkanen
Cc: Rodrigo Sakai; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] backup problem

Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rodrigo Sakai wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to do a backup of a database that is
larger then 4 GB. But it gets an error when the file size gets 1.2 GB! I
think its an Operational System problem (linux)! So, I want to know if
exists some solution to backup my database??

The command that I used was=

pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D -f
'backup.sql'

The operational system is linux with etx filesystem,
and the version of postgres is 7.4!!

You can try:

pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D |bzip2 -c
>backup.sql.bz2

bzip2 compresses better than gzip.

Restoration:

bzcat backup.sql.bz2|psql - postgres -d dbdeveloper


Cheers,

I use the same but use the bzip2 '--best' parameter for best compression
or is that the default? Also for the OP Rodrigo Sakai, have your tried
Solaris 10 x86? It is a rock solid OS from Sun that I have used for 12
years - 6 of them with Postgres. The two have coexisted together without
incident. It can be d/led for free at the Sun site.

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