On Freitag 19 Juni 2009 torrez wrote: > time tar -czf /pbo/podbackuprecovery/tars/pod-backup-$ > {CURRDATE}.tar.gz /pbo/pod > /pbo/podbackuprecovery/pitr_logs/backup- > tar-log-${CURRDATE}.log 2>&1 If you have a multi-core/multi-CPU machine, try to used pbzip2 (parallel bzip2), which can use all CPU cores at the same time for compression. The simplest might be tar cf backup.tar ..... (first the tar without compression to finish quickly) pbzip2 backup.tar mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin