Re: make abackup using CMD

Use a .pgpass file. Specifically, you are nominating Postgres as the user so there needs to be a .pgpass file in the Postgres user's home folder. So on more recent versions, in /Users/postgres/AppData/Roaming/Postgres/. Note: the databases in the pgpass file must be set to * otherwise you won't have the rights to back up all the databases.

If you are doing this on a regular basis, or want this to happen automatically each day then you should look at pgAgent and set up jobs in that. It works very well.

Regards
David Blaymires

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On 10/02/2013, at 3:25 AM, "Ahmed Mohammed Darwish" <ADarwish(at)nasaviation(dot)com> wrote:

> Dears,
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> I need a help for the following case:
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> I want to make auto backup for the database using Dos Command line , I made the following CMD line
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> pg-dumpall -h localhost -Upostgres > allinone.bak
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> but I found every time I have to enter password. So , how can I include the password parameter in the above statement so that I can schedule this patch to take a backup 4 times daily without entering the password every time.
>
> Thank you in advance for your support.
>
>
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