Re: [PERFORM] Suggestions for a HBA controller (6 x SSDs + madam RAID10)

2017-03-02 Thread Pietro Pugni
I just mounted and configured my brand new LSI 3008-8i. This server had 1 SAS expander connected to 2 backplanes (8 disks to the first backplane and no disks connected to the second backplane). After some testing I found the SAS expander was a bottleneck, so I removed it and connected the first

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread Gustavo Vargas
Hi Rick, You Always have a doubt, if backup is full and done. In my case, I have one Client using a large database, and the base in mysql, an when we stop traffic about 8:00PM start a lot of routines. I have about 2hours of Exclusive lock. For solve one problem like these in this Client. We

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread Dinesh Chandra 12108
May you please share what types of check if there to guarantee the backup is trustworthy. Regards, Dinesh Chandra |Database administrator (Oracle/PostgreSQL)| Cyient Ltd. Noida. From: l...@laurent-hasson.com [mailto:l...@laurent-hasson.com] Sent: 02 March, 2017 9:57 PM To: Rick Otten ; Dinesh Ch

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread l...@laurent-hasson.com
It'd be so nice to have some checks to guarantee the backup is trustworthy. Restoring the db is imho not a very good option in general: - large databases are a problem. My db is about 3TB. Time plus disk space is a big blocker. - also, what if the backup is incomplete? Just restoring the db suc

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread Dinesh Chandra 12108
Dear Rick, Thanks for your valuable reply. But the daily restoration of backup to another database is really so time consuming because our databases size is greater than 2TB. Regards, Dinesh Chandra |Database administrator (Oracle/PostgreSQL)| From: Rick Otten [mailto:rottenwindf...@gmail.com]

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread Rick Otten
This reminds me - I have had a case where the exit code for pg_dump was successful, but the backup was still corrupted on disk. By all means check the exit code, but I strong encourage a second validation, such as the index listing, to increase your confidence that the backup was successful. The

Re: [PERFORM] How Can I check PostgreSQL backup is successfully or not ?

2017-03-02 Thread Dinesh Chandra 12108
Hi, When I issue the bleow command > ./bin >pg_dump -U dummy_user dummy_database; echo $? I checked with Linux TOP command on the same server, it was showing COPY database. What exactly it doing ?? Regards, Dinesh Chandra -Original Message- From: vinny [mailto:vi...@xs4all.nl] Sent: