Re: Fastest Backup & Restore for perf testing

On 05/27/2015 04:24 PM, Wes Vaske (wvaske) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m running performance tests against a PostgreSQL database (9.4) with
> various hardware configurations and a couple different benchmarks
> (TPC-C & TPC-H).
>
> I’m currently using pg_dump and pg_restore to refresh my dataset
> between runs but this process seems slower than it could be.
>
> Is it possible to do a tar/untar of the entire /var/lib/pgsql tree as
> a backup & restore method?
>
> If not, is there another way to restore a dataset more quickly? The
> database is dedicated to the test dataset so trashing & rebuilding the
> entire application/OS/anything is no issue for me—there’s no data for
> me to lose.
>
> Thanks!
>


Read all of this chapter.
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup.html>

cheers

andrew