On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:09:02AM +1000, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Nice, that has cleared it up. > > I am on 8.1 also. > > On my test box, a standard dump took 6m 26sec & a -Fc dump took 11min 2sec. > That's not a great difference, but the size difference is quite noticeable. You might use --compress=6 or even --compress=1 to lower the impact of compression and try again. On the other hand, 11 minutes is not a big deal for dumping a whole DB... Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de