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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
To: David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:56:45 -0700
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On 03/25/2014 05:05 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:39 AM, David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hai,
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me the difference and performance between pgdump and
>>> pg_basebackup if I want to backup a large database.
>>>

Honestly,

Neither is particularly good at backing up large databases. I would look 
into PITR with rsync.

JD


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