From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: John Smith <sodgodofall@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Backup/Restore of single table in multi TB database
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 22:28:44 +0100
Message-ID: <1210195724.4268.231.camel@ebony.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b88f0d670805071302h469141e0ke29413edddb444e0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b88f0d670805071302h469141e0ke29413edddb444e0@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:02 -0700, John Smith wrote:
> I have a large database (multiple TBs) where I'd like to be able to do
> a backup/restore of just a particular table (call it foo). Because
> the database is large, the time for a full backup would be
> prohibitive. Also, whatever backup mechanism we do use needs to keep
> the system online (i.e., users must still be allowed to update table
> foo while we're taking the backup).
Have a look at pg_snapclone. It's specifically designed to significantly
improve dump times for very large objects.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/snapclone/
--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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