the database & backup are already seperate devices

On 11 April 2013 10:25, Marcus Bajohr <marcus.bajohr@...> wrote:

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> Hej,
>
> from my little knowledge i have: are the db and the backup on different
> devices? Or are they both on the raid?
> I've reduced the backup time from 1,5 mours to 40 minutes for a ~55 GB
> db by simply writing the backup to another physical dev
>
> cheers, Marcus
>
> > Nick Upson <mailto:nu@...>
> > Donnerstag, 11. April 2013 11:19
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm need to speedup my database backup, its currently taking 6 hours to
> > backup a 74Gb database. Using firebird 2.1.5 on centos, database is on
> > fast
> > drives with raid 10.
> >
> > How does this compare with the experience of others?
> >
> > the command line used is: (and I do need the garbage collect)
> >
> > gbak -user sysdba -pass XXX -backup localhost:/opt/db/mydb.fdb stdout >
> > /var/archive/db/mydb.fbk
> >
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Nick Upson, Telensa Ltd


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