Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup
Date: 2015-07-21 10:00:13
Message-ID: 55AE182D.5010600@hogranch.com
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On 7/21/2015 1:51 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> Thanks John. The backup script is running as root, so presumably I'd have to use
> sudo? Or should I run a separate cron job as postgres to do the above, and run the
> backup script separately?

those are both possibilities. I'd either use su (not sudo) from root,
or I'd cron it from the postgres DBA account, depending.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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