| From: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
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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: | 2010-05-14 07:33:30 |
| Message-ID: | 1273822410.2247.4.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org |
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 09:15 -0700, Wang, Mary Y wrote:
> 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),
If you replace 8.3 with current, you will get the current docs.
> and it looks like pg_dumpall > outfile is the best choice.
Depends. Many people tend to dump each database individually, especially
using -Fc parameters in order to restore them easily. If you choose this
route, please note that you will also need to dump globals using
pg_dumpall -g.
Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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