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* Export operation efficiency in read replica
@ 2025-03-20 11:52  Siraj G <[email protected]>
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From: Siraj G @ 2025-03-20 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]

Hello Experts!

I have a DB with 1TB in size serving needs of one of our critical
applications. I have a requirement to take export of the DB on a daily
basis, but want to carry out this operation in read replica. The postgresql
version is: 16.6

What would be the RPO of such backup?
What would be the impact on the READ REPLICA with a long running export
operation?

Thank you!
Siraj


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* Re: Export operation efficiency in read replica
@ 2025-03-20 11:59  Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
  parent: Siraj G <[email protected]>
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From: Laurenz Albe @ 2025-03-20 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Siraj G <[email protected]>; [email protected]

On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 17:22 +0530, Siraj G wrote:
> I have a DB with 1TB in size serving needs of one of our critical
> applications. I have a requirement to take export of the DB on a
> daily basis, but want to carry out this operation in read replica.
> The postgresql version is: 16.6
> 
> What would be the RPO of such backup?

Depends on the speed of disk and network and on what an RPO is.

> What would be the impact on the READ REPLICA with a long running
> export operation?

Potentially severe.

You could look into storage technologies that allow you to take
a snapshot and clone it.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe






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* Re: Export operation efficiency in read replica
@ 2025-03-20 14:17  Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
  parent: Siraj G <[email protected]>
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From: Ron Johnson @ 2025-03-20 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-general

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM Siraj G <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Experts!
>
> I have a DB with 1TB in size serving needs of one of our critical
> applications. I have a requirement to take export of the DB on a daily
> basis, but want to carry out this operation in read replica. The postgresql
> version is: 16.6
>

Use PgBackRest from the streaming replica.


> What would be the RPO of such backup?
>

Are you asking how long it takes to restore the backup back to the primary?


> What would be the impact on the READ REPLICA with a long running export
> operation?
>

Why not use the standby server (aka "read replica") as the hot standby in
case the Primary crashes hard?

Then pg_basebackup (or PgBackRest) to get the database back to the primary
once it's back up.

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