On Tue, June 24, 2008 8:41 am, Adrian Moisey wrote: > Hi > > We have a 100GB database (16GB dumped) running on 8.2. > > Since the bandwidth in South Africa isn't that freely available it is > difficult for us to get a new copy of out DB in our office (our fastest > link in the office is 4Mbps). > > What can you recommend for me to get an up to date copy of my DB in the > office with as little transfer as possible. > > A few ideas I've been toying with are rsyncing a dump of the db, or > replication. > > Any ideas? Give Slony (http://www.slony.info/) a try - the initial replication of the entire DB takes a while, thereafter it only replicates changes (as they happen). We've been using it successfully (it has it's occasional problems like all things) for over a year now replicating across a cluster (DB is also about 100GB+). Regards Henry
