On Wednesday 2025-08-27 00:00, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>This might be a silly question, but why are you using -Fc to create multi-TB dumps instead of -Fd? If nothing else,
theparallelization granted by -Fd will greatly speed up the dumps.
Hi Ron,
the primary reason is space. With -Fc I don't have to store the 10TB
archive locally. And I don't have to wait for pg_dump to finish. I pipe
it directly to the "borg create" command which does compression and
deduplication and sends new chunks to a remote borgbackup server.
Regards,
Dimitris
P.S. please use "Reply-all" when replying, I've missed quite a few
replies that I found on the list archives. :-)