Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup running from a remote machine

rakeshkumar464 wrote:
> If pg_basebackup is run from a remote machine with compress option --gzip ,
> compress level 9,
> will the compression occur prior to the data being sent on the network or
> after it has been received
> at the remote machine.

That only means that the output TAR file will be compressed, it has
nothing to do with the data transfered from the server.

If you want to compress the data sent over the network, use
pg_basebackup over an SSL connection with SSL compression enabled.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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