On Thursday 26 October 2006 02:20, Chris wrote: > Coder At Heart wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Restore & backup take time in the tune of 6 hrs on a Linux, 4 proc, 32 G > > RAM machine for a 60GB database. > > Please always cc the mailing list. > > I've never played with databases that large so I don't know if that's > good or bad.. others on the list will be able to offer advice/suggestions. A while back I wrote something up on increasing restore times, might be worth checking out. http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/133-Getting-faster-database-restores-on-postgresql-8.1.html -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL