Re: Rackspace to RDS using DMS (Postgres 9.2)

On 08/31/2016 03:41 PM, Patrick B wrote:
> Hi guys, I posted this question on the ADMIN list but will post here as
> well so more people can comment...
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJNY3it_AfxJhmwMHtpiAbHG47GS5rJOAUgfHw%2BGm5OXCbUm7w%40mail.gmail.com
>
> I've got a 2.3TB Database running at Rackspace... We'll be migrating it
> to RDS PostgreSQL 9.5 very soon...
>
> We already have an EC2 Instance at Amazon running PostgreSQL 9.2 as
> streaming replication from Rackspace.
>
> I'll have to upgrade the version of Postgres on that instance before
> start using DMS service.
>
> *Question:*
> Has anybody ever used that service? I'm just trying to find out how much
> time it will take to perform the migration...

It is 2.3TB, it is going to take a long time no matter what service you
are running.

No, I have not used DMS. Frankly, with all respect to AWS/RDS the idea
of running a 2.3TB instance that will get any level of performance
sounds ridiculously expensive.

Sincerely,

JD


>
> Thanks!
> Patrick


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