Hi!
I have a database "Customer" with about 60Gb of data.
I know I can backup and restore, but this seems too slow.
Is there any other option to duplicate this database as "CustomerTest" as fast as possible (even fastar than backup/restore) - better if in one operation (something like "copy database A to B")?
I would like to run this everyday, overnight, with minimal impact to prepare a test environment based on production data.
Hum, I don't know exactly how to do it, but on Linux, you could put the "Customer" database in a tablespace which resides on a BTRFS filesystem. BTRFS can do a quick "snapshot" of the filesystem and you can then set things for "incremental backup", as talked about here: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup . From some reading, btrfs is a performance dog compared to others.
interesting take using various filesystems for PostgreSQL: http://www.slideshare.net/fuzzycz/postgresql-on-ext4-xfs-btrfs-and-zfs
another on btrfs + PostgreSQL http://www.cybertec.at/2015/01/forking-databases-the-art-of-copying-without-copying/
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So we managed to take fork a 15 GB database in 6 seconds with only a small hiccup in performance. We are ready to start up the forked database.
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I got a number of hits searching on "postgresql btrfs" using Google search.
Thanks,
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Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
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