| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Wang, Mary Y" <mary(dot)y(dot)wang(at)boeing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dumpall for Postgres Database Daily Backup? |
| Date: | 2010-05-13 17:00:43 |
| Message-ID: | 1273770043.8624.2984.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 09:15 -0700, Wang, Mary Y wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running on Postgres 8.3.8. My system admin is ready to set up a cron job for a daily database backup.
> By reading the documentation over here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/backup-dump.html#BACKUP-DUMP-ALL (I only found the documentation for 8.3.10), and it looks like pg_dumpall > outfile is the best choice. I'd like to ask the community to reconfirm.
It entirely depends on your needs. I generally use pg_dump -Fc over a
loop to each database. The plain text version of the dump is
particularly difficult to work with for partial restores.
Joshua D. Drake
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> Thanks in advance.
> Mary
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