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Speedy PostgreSQL Parallel Compression Dumps
2 Comments | Filed under administration main open sourceJanuary 18, 2010
I used to backup our database using the following statement; pg_dump -h fab2 -Fc -Z9 somedb > somedb.db Once our dataset grew into the gigabytes, it took a very long time to do database dumps. Today, I stumbled upon yet another awesome blog post done by Ted Dzibua mentioning two useful parallel compression utilities. So […]