Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > As I recall, the initial backup of our 360GB (or so) database took > about 6 hours and the restore only took about 2 hours. Really? I'd certainly have guessed the opposite (mainly because of index build time, constraint checking, etc during reload). Could it be that compression of the pg_dump output is swamping all else during the backup phase? regards, tom lane
