Shiwangini Shishulkar wrote: > Any way to reduce backup size of postgres backups or it's default behavior of postgres to take backups which are double in size? The smallest backup would be a compressed custom format "pg_dump": pg_dump -F c -Z 9 ... I is very unusual for a custom format dump to be bigger than the original database. How did you measure the database size? Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com