On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:40 +0200, Nicos Panayides wrote: > 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? Consider turning off full_page_writes which will permanently minimise the amount of WAL traffic, as well as being an integrated and fully-supported option with Postgres. You will need additional non-volatile cache on your disks to ensure that is a safe option, though that will yield performance advantages also. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
