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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition
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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reducing the bandwidth of a backup

When pg_basebackup starts, it tries to finish its work as quickly as possible. If we have a good network connection, pg_basebackup is definitely able to fetch hundreds of megabytes a second from the remote server. If our server has a weak I/O system, it could mean that pg_basebackup could suck up all the resources easily, and end users might experience bad performance because their I/O requests are simply too slow.

To control the maximum transfer rate, pg_basebackup offers the following:

-r, --max-rate=RATE     maximum transfer rate to transfer data directory     (in kB/s, or use suffix "k" or "M")

When we create a base backup, we need to make sure that the disk system on the master can actually stand the load. ...

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ISBN: 9781838988821