Re: postgres large database backup

On 11/30/22 11:41, Vijaykumar Jain wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 9:10 PM Atul Kumar <akumar14871(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a 10TB database running on postgres 11 version running on
> centos 7 "on premises", I need to schedule the backup of this database
> in a faster way.
>
> The scheduled backup will be used for PITR purposes.
>
> So please let me know how I should do it in a quicker backup for my
> 10TB database ? Is there any tool to take backups and subsequently
> incremental backups in a faster way and restore it for PITR in a
> faster way when required.
>
> What should be the exact approach for scheduling such backups so that
> it can be restored in a faster way ?
>
>
>
> We had a 96 cpu, 385gb ram, nvme storage and 10g network baremetal server.
> We used pgbackrest for full backup.
> It supports pitr and differential backup.
>
> 28tb db took 2.5 hours for backup on remote storage, and restore from the
> remote storage  took 3.5 hours when immediately restored (a lot of time is
> later due to wal replay to catch up)

Another vote for pgbackrest.  It supports AES encryption, and multiple forms
of compression.

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