Re: backups

mcelroy, tim wrote:
> Thanks Scott, great idea. Does one use pg_restore to restore the files
> that pg_dumpall creates?

No, oddly you use psql.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:35 PM
> To: mcelroy, tim
> Cc: 'Bruno Wolff III'; 'pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org'
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] backups
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:11, mcelroy, tim wrote:
> > Excellent point Bruno, thanks. I must admit that I did think of that
> > and have already copied all my .conf files to the backup directory. I
> > should have noted that earlier.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
>
> Another thing to check is that your global data (i.e. user accounts) are
> being backed up. pg_dumpall does this, but individual pg_dumps do not.
>
> In our prod environment we run a backup of those accounts with
> 'pg_dumpall -g' every night as well.
>

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