Re: Postgres 12 backup in 32 bit windows client

On 3/28/20 12:57 PM, Andrus wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> What are you going to do with this backup?
>
> If server disk crashes, it can used to restore data.
>
>> Do you have shell access to the Debian machine in order to do the backup
>> there?
>
> I have but my application user in 32bit windows does not have.
> I want to allow 32 bit windows user to make backup from 5432 port directly
> to her computer C: drive.
>
> If Postgres 12 32bit pg_dump is not available maybe it is possible to
> create stored procedure which invokes pg_dump in server and returns
> .backup file as bytea value to client:
>
> select run('pg_dump mydatabase')

What about you make the backup on the db server with cron and then have her
copy the file to her computer using WinSCP?

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