On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:07 AM, James Sewell <james(dot)sewell(at)lisasoft(dot)com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to trigger a database dump from a SQL script (or function, but I
> think that is even less likely).
>
> I know I can do:
>
> \! pg_dumpall > /mydir/myfile
>
> Which is fine, but I need to use a variable to set the name.
>
> \set myfile 'filename'
> \! pg_dumpall > /mydir/:myfile
>
> Doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Below URL provides more information of Automated database Backup's on Linux:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Automated_Backup_on_Linux
Thanks & Regards
Raghu Ram