| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Busby <busby(at)pnts(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Zavier Sheran <zsheran(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Backing up the database via browser |
| Date: | 2002-11-11 18:24:16 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211111123290.22991-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, David Busby wrote:
> Zavier,
> Using PHP You can do a ``, shell_exec, or passthru to run another
> process, (search for the word "exec" on php.net) Using that and PostgreSQL
> command pg_dump you can pull it off, might take a while, here's some
> untested code with no error checking
>
> <?php
> $db = $_GET['db'];
> $cmd = "pg_dump -c -D -f /tix/miner/miner.sql -F p -N -U postgres $db";
> $res = `$cmd`;
> // Alternate: $res = shell_exec($cmd);
> echo $res;
> ?>
He might need to start the $cmd with "/path/to/pg_dump...
unless the pgsql path is in httpd's path.
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