Saranya Sivakumar wrote:
Hi All, I am trying to back up a full copy of one of our databases (14G) and restore it on another server. Both databases run 7.3.2 version. Though the restore completed successfully, it took 9 hours for the process to complete. The destination server runs Fedora Core 3 with 512 MB RAM and has 1 processor. I have also deferred referential intergrity checks during the restore. I tried to tune some parameters in the config file, but it still takes 9 hours.
Firstly, you should upgrade to the most recent version of 7.3.x (7.3.15) - that's a *lot* of bug-fixes you are missing
Then, I would temporarily disable fsync and increase sort_mem and checkpoint_segments. What you're trying to do is make a single process run as fast as possible, so allow it to grab more resources than you normally would.
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