From: | Darren Ferguson <darren(at)crystalballinc(dot)com> |
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To: | Sanjeev Rathore <intmail2002(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: database backup |
Date: | 2002-07-07 02:42:28 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0207062240580.25989-100000@thread.crystalballinc.com |
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If you are using a Unix environment then you should use cron and then
pg_dump in order to produce a complete backup of the database.
See the pg_dump --help for complete list of commands
Then the shell script in the cron job can call pg_dump with the relevant
options
HTH
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sanjeev Rathore wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into how I should backup my PostgreSQL
> database. Is there a way to do incremental backup? I
> think incremental back seems to be a better solution
> in the long run, because it is more scalable. Does
> anybody have any suggestions as to how I should go
> about backing up my database?
>
> thanks,
> Sanjeev
>
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