* Mike C (smith.not.western@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Yes, space is our limiting factor. A pg_dump archive format backup takes > about 40mins for 25GB. A restore IIRC takes about 2 hours. However the size > of the database is expected to grow to about 120 GB within a few months and > by the end of 2006 over 400 GB. The current capacity of our DS 400 SAN is > 600 GB. at 400GB my only backup option with the existing hardware is > pg_dump. However I suspect now that I really should be looking at additional > hardware. Yeah, that pg_dump restore time is pretty rough. As I recall, the initial backup of our 360GB (or so) database took about 6 hours and the restore only took about 2 hours. One nice thing (well, in a way I guess) was that the whole thing compressed down to under 100GB. This was on an IBM DS4600 SAN (iirc, something along those lines) with 5 320GB FC disks in a RAID-5. I'm not really looking forward to the day I get to pg_dump and pg_restore the whole thing to move to 8.1. :) Thanks, Stephen
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