Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Tips/tricks for decreasing load?

[Jason L. Buberel]

And a good hunch at that. In fact, that was the first test I performed - 
enable hot backup mode but do not invoke rdiff-backup. There is no 
performance or load impact, indicating that the postgres hot-backup 
feature is as well implemented as has been claimed :)

-jason

Austin Clements wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what happens if you just put Postgres into hot
> backup mode and don't run rdiff-backup?  I've never personally
> administered Postgres, but it seems that hot backup mode would cause
> it to sync much more frequently, which could send your iowait time
> through the roof.
>
> Just a hunch.
>
>