Nicos Panayides wrote: > Hi, > I am planning an off-site backup solution for a fairly busy > (mostly-write) 8.3 database. The database is currently about 200GB in > size. I though about using log shipping and cold standby since it's easy > in terms of administration and also offers point in time recovery. > > The database generates about 3 PITR log files per minute. If my > calculations are correct the sites need to be connected with a 7MBit > connection and the logs will need about 68GB of storage per day! > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to significantly reduce the > volume of log files or recommend another off-site backup solution that > would require less bandwidth and storage? I would use pg_lesslog to reduce the size of the WAL files: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pglesslog/ However, there is a bug in pg_lesslog so I wouldn't use it until that is fixed: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2010-02/msg00005.php Koichi, do you have any update on this? I don't see that a new version has been uploaded, and I also see no mention on the pgfoundry site about the bug. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
