Richard Huxton wrote:
>> In our environment it takes approx 2 hours to perform a PIT backup of
>> our live system:
>>
>> [1] select pg_start_backup('labe;')
>> [2] cpio & compress database directory (exclude wals)
>> [3] select pg_stop_backup()
>>
>> However, if we perform a plain dump (pg_dump/pg_dumpall) we
>> can dump the whole lot in 15 minutes. For us this is more efficient.
>
> It sounds like there's something strange with your setup if it's
quicker
> for pg_dump to read your data than cp. Do you have *lots* of indexes,
or
> perhaps a lot of dead rows?
That sounds like a good bet.
Did you ever do a VACUUM FULL?
What is the size of the online backup?
What is the size of the pg_dumpall?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe