Goodbye, pg_dump

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:12:05 +0000

I’ve been a Postgres user and administrator for a while. Over the years, my views on backups have evolved.

Originally, like most people, I started out with good old pg_dump. With a reasonably small database (under 50 GB) dumping to a flat text file is a fine option. I’d generally do something like pg_dump -Upostgres dbname | gzip > dbname.sql.gz to compress it on the fly and save space. For years this seemed perfect: dumping the entire database in a single transaction into a single file that can be restored anywhere.

Using WAL archiving & Compellent snapshots for PostgreSQL backups

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:46:40 +0000

Changing my Postgres DB backup strategy from nightly pg_dumps to WAL archiving with SAN snapshots.

Pg_dump on Evan Hoffman

Goodbye, pg_dump

Using WAL archiving & Compellent snapshots for PostgreSQL backups