On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 15:48 -0600, Mathieu Fenniak wrote: > Hi pgsql-general, > > Has anyone else ever noticed how slow it can be to rsync or tar a pgdata > directory with hundreds of thousands or millions of files? Yes: http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2012/05/base-backup-compression-options.html My analysis showed that the archiving was CPU-bound on the compression task. It might different when you are dealing with a lot of small files as opposed to a few big files. So parallelizing the archiving itself could still be useful. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
