On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeff Davis wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > pg_dump just produces output. You could pretty easily stripe that output > > across multiple devices just by using some scripts. Just make sure to > > write a script that can reconstruct the data again when you need to > > restore. > > But doesn't that mean that pg_dump must dump to disk? > > With a *big* database, that's a whole lot of extra kit (not just > spindles) to buy. I'm certain you can backup direct to tape, as I've done it in the past with postgresql. This was in the day of 4 gig 4 mm tape drives...
