Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WSThD-0005tN-QS for pgsql-performance@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:55:24 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WSThD-0005ZJ-5W for pgsql-performance@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:55:23 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WSThC-0005Yr-CP for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:55:22 +0000 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com ([69.168.55.30]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WSTh7-00086R-TN for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:55:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (spinlock.commandprompt.com [69.168.55.30]) by lists.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E472A6E5; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] ([71.95.106.58] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by assp.commandprompt.com with ESMTPS(AES128-SHA) (2.1.1); 25 Mar 2014 08:55:15 -0700 Message-ID: <5331A6E6.8010503@commandprompt.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:55:18 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Magnus Hagander , ik@postgresql-consulting.com CC: Claudio Freire , David Johnston , postgres performance list Subject: Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup References: <1395722709.28433.YahooMailNeo@web161601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1395733159787-5797364.post@n5.nabble.com> <5331992D.9010603@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Assp-Version: 2.1.1(11364) on assp.commandprompt.com X-Assp-Client-SSL: yes X-Assp-ID: assp.commandprompt.com m1-62915-04207 X-Assp-Envelope-From: jd@commandprompt.com X-Assp-Intended-For: magnus@hagander.net X-Assp-Original-Subject: Re: [PERFORM] pg_dump vs pg_basebackup X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-performance Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org On 03/25/2014 08:21 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > I would say that's the one thing that rsync is *not*. pg_basebackup > takes care of a lot of things under the hood. rsync is a lot more > complicated, in particular in failure scenarios, since you have to > manually deal with pg_start/stop_backup(). > > There are definitely reasons you'd prefer rsync over pg_basebackup, but > I don't believe simplicity is one of them. > > //Magnus Good God man... since when do you top post! Well there are tools that use rsync to solve those issues :P. We even have one that does multi-threaded rsync so you can pull many Terabytes in very little time (relatively). JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ 509-416-6579 PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development High Availability, Oracle Conversion, Postgres-XC, @cmdpromptinc Political Correctness is for cowards. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance