Re: PGbackrest very slow!

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > On Oct 23, 2025, at 2:59 AM, Pär Mattsson <par.x.mattsson@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > The backup of 50GB took 40 min.
> > > It is not a network issue. I tested to transfer 2GB between two host and
> > it took 4 sec.
> > >
> > > I think backup-standby=y slows down the backup out of all minds.
> > >
> > > Br Pär
> >
> > pgbackrest defaults to gzip compression, which is slow--try lz4 and see
> > what happens
> >
> 
> lz4 is faster, but not 1440x faster.
> 

But it might be 24x faster, using 2s/GB. :)

--Ken