pg_dump backup utility is taking more time around 24hrs to take the backup of 28GB

There are many possible problems, could you share your command line?

For example. Dump on SAME drive as the DB files, can produce disk
contention. Dump across the network, can have packet collision of network
latency. I dump 20gb test server in a matter of a couple minutes here. But,
I run multiple disk controllers, data drive one 1 iSCSI and archives on
another iSCSI - both run SSD ... so obviously, in this design I am simply
moving RAM from 1 gig channel to another 1 gig channel, both are private
circuits - no network conflict, and I average no less than 1GBps A to B
stack performance.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:25 AM Raghavendra Rao J S V <
raghavendrajsv@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Raghavendra Rao J S V [mailto:raghavendrajsv@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 7:26 AM
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pg_dump backup utility is taking more time around 24hrs to take the backup of 28GB

Hi All,

We are using pg_dump backup utility in order to take the backup of the database. Unfortunately,it is taking around 24hrs of time to take the backup of 28GB database. Please guide me how to reduce the time and is there any parameter need to be modified which will help us to reduce the backup time. We are using Postgres 9.2 version

Note:-Kindly suggest me options using pg_dump only.

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Regards,
Raghavendra Rao
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I agree with Ozz, be sure you’re dumping to another drive than what your DB sits on.
Investigate the “-f d” option, and the “-j” option can be useful too. I’ll also point out that hardware makes a big difference. :)

We can dump a 180G DB in about 15min. Note, that is to an SSD RAID array and we do “-f d -j $num_cpus_minus_2” and there are 32 cpus on the server (so -j 30).

HTH,
Kevin

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:26 AM Raghavendra Rao J S V <
raghavendrajsv@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

We are using *pg_dump *backup utility in order to take the backup of the
database. Unfortunately,it is taking around 24hrs of time to take the
backup of 28GB database. Please guide me how to reduce the time and is
there any parameter need to be modified which will help us to reduce the
backup time. We are using Postgres 9.2 version

What minor version? How long does it take to do just a pg_dump -s? Can
you use system tools (like top in Linux) to identify the bottleneck as CPU,
disk, etc.?

Cheers,

Jeff