real 3m4.360s
user 1m22.090s
sys 0m6.050s
Which is still less time than it would take to do a compressed pg_dump.
On 6/14/06,
Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How long does gzip take to compress this backup?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:59, John Vincent wrote:
> Okay I did another test dumping using the uncompressed backup on the
> system unloaded and the time dropped down to 8m for the backup.
> There's still the size issue to contend with but as I said, I've got a
> fair bit of space left on the SAN to work with.