Re: database backup

From: Doug Fields <dfields-pg-general(at)pexicom(dot)com>
To: Darren Ferguson <darren(at)crystalballinc(dot)com>
Cc: Sanjeev Rathore <intmail2002(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: database backup
Date: 2002-07-07 02:59:40
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.2.20020706225847.02f4f8d8@pop.pexicom.com
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At 10:42 PM 7/6/2002, Darren Ferguson wrote:
>If you are using a Unix environment then you should use cron and then
>pg_dump in order to produce a complete backup of the database.
>
>See the pg_dump --help for complete list of commands
>
>Then the shell script in the cron job can call pg_dump with the relevant
>options

If you want to "incrementalize" it, you could always keep a base, and diff
the new dump against it, and store just the diff.

Be sure to run the output through bzip2 (or gzip -9) to save space.

Cheers,

Doug

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