Re: automatic pg_dumpall

Kemin Zhou wrote:
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>>If I have to organize an automatic nightly pg_dumpall, how do I handle
>>authentication ? I do not want to create a passwordless superuser (or
>>trust method in pg_hba.conf), and there is noone to enter the password
>>manually. Is there another recipe?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any input.
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> use crontab
> run this daily
> su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -b -Ft -f db.tar -h
> machine_name_of_db your_db"

I am afraid you did not understand my question. In your scenario,
pg_dump will ask for the authentification of the user "postgres". I
have already stated above that I do not want to create a passwordless
superuser (or trust method in pg_hba.conf).

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