it's no easy answer. If your server has plenty of free resources there won't be trouble, but I do have customers who cannot even imagine of launching a dump in normal traffic hours. How loaded is your box, currently?
Cheerio
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On 15 March 2012 12:15, Richard Harley <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all
Very simple question - does pg_dump/dumpall hit the server in terms of database performance? We currently do nightly backups and I want to move to hourly backups but not at the expense of hogging all the resources for 5 mins.
Pg_dumpall is currently producing a 1GB file - that's the combined size of around 30 databases and it takes around 5 mins to run.
Thanks
Rich
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