Re: pg_dump why no indicator of completion

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On May 1, 2023, at 10:34 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As I've asked Ron, if pg_dump isn't fit for purpose, then what do you believe is?

If you need a logical backup then pg_dump is the right tool; as noted before but with better options to improve performance.

For backups; I would recommend physical backups which there are many solutions for.  I have personally used snapshots and believe that is the best solution.  It is the fastest and best solution to meet recovery time objective (RTO).  For example, I’m able to make a backup of a multi-terabyte database in under a second and multiple backups are cheap.  This allows me to do a backup of the system every 6 hours. The most expensive part of a database restore is going to be applying the WAL files when doing a point in time recovery (PITR).  This means that at most, I would only have to apply around 6 hours of WAL files; which can still take a long time given a high volume system.

In my opinion snapshots are the best solution but it will depend on your infrastructure and requires knowledge of the infrastructure and setting it up correctly.

If I could not use snapshots; I would look into either pgBackRest or pgBarman.   

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