Re: Backup Database Question

On 10/06/11 8:26 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> Yes I agree but I didn't know enough about PostgreSQL to make that
> determination. Seems very logical however. Does anyone know of a
> PostgreSQL backup script floating around the Internet for Linux
> systems? I found a great one for MySQL but sadly that doesn't do me
> any good.

/path/to/pg_dumpall | gzip > /path/to/pgbackup-$(date -I).sql.gz

put this in a script accessible by the postgres user, and in the
postgres user's crontab, invoke it something like..

30 1 * * * /path/to/backupscript

to run it every night at 1:30am. If you only want to run it once a week...

30 1 * * 6 /path/to/backupscript

which will run it on Saturday morning at 1:30am (day 6)

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