On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Alex Thurlow <alex-reports@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/22/2011 3:28 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: ...... > How long is this backup taking? I have a ~100GB database that I back up > with pg_dump (which compresses as it dumps if you want it to) and that only > takes 35 minutes. Granted, I have it on some fast SCSI drives in RAID 1, > but even a single SATA drive should still finish in a decent amount of time. Hi Alex, could you share what exact command you use? Mine are SCSI too, in RAID 10, but the dump takes over 2-3 hours (60 GB database) and the CPU consumption during this time is huge. Thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
