what is the best way to backup?

what is the best way to backup a database?
The database I am working with does have a few columns that are of the type
text.
I know i should use pg_dump but what should the command line be?

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Doug McNaught
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:37 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] Release docs

The website still has the 7.1 doc set under "Release Docs"--shouldn't
that be updated?

I'm looking at "http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/"...

-Doug
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Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863

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