Re: How to verify pg_dump files

On 07/11/2012 18:57, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie
> <mailto:rod(at)iol(dot)ie>> wrote:
>
> On 07/11/2012 13:01, Gary wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest how I could verify that the files created by
> pg_dump
> > are "okay"? They are being created for backup purposes, and the last
> > thing I want to do is find out that the backups themselves are in some
> > way corrupt.
> >
> > I know I can check the output of the command itself, but what if.. I
> > don't know... if there are problems with the disc it writes to, or
> > something like that. Is there any way to check whether the output file
> > is "valid" in the sense that it is complete and syntactically correct?
>
> Reload it and test your application against it?
>
> Ray.
>
>
> --
> Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
> rod(at)iol(dot)ie <mailto:rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
>
>
> Would that entail over-writing good data with possibly bad data?

No, reload your database into a newly-created database - on a test
server, not on the production server!

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
rod(at)iol(dot)ie