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Re: In-order pg_dump (or in-order COPY TO)

Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>

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From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-27T12:52:39Z
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On Wednesday 2025-08-27 00:00, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>This might be a silly question, but why are you using -Fc to create multi-TB dumps instead of -Fd?  If nothing else, the parallelization granted by -Fd will greatly speed up the dumps.

Hi Ron,

the primary reason is space. With -Fc I don't have to store the 10TB 
archive locally. And I don't have to wait for pg_dump to finish. I pipe 
it directly to the "borg create" command which does compression and 
deduplication and sends new chunks to a remote borgbackup server.

Regards,
Dimitris



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