On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So are you writing the backup to the same disk(s) that support the db? What > happens if you do the dump from a different machine? You'll increase network > traffic, of course, but reduce your disk load. And you won't be keeping your > dump on the same machine as your live data. Good point. I tried that, actually, but was still disk-bound. (Mostly read activity.) I am moving the pg_dump process to a Slony slave. Thanks! Aleksey -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
