On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 07:40:46AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > The next day, that backup will be copied to the cloud. > > What does this mean? If it is rsync of a local dump to a remote use > the directory dump format - disable compression - then each table which > didn't change will 'copy' almost instantly. I think OP wants to minimize the time spent during shutdown, not during the next day. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346