>Probably not a good idea to put your data in the postgres database. This
is one of the system databases created by >initdb and is meant to be used
as a default database to connect to, not really as one to store data in.
Just did a test >with pg_dumpall and it is not dumped when you backup the
entire cluster.

This statement is not entirely accurate. Although I agree it is a good idea
to have a separate named database for each "application"pg_dumpall does not
add a "CREATE DATABASE postgres;" to the dump file because pg_restore
expects that the postgres database already exists. However, all objects in
the postgres database are dumped and will be restored. This can be verified
because you can do a "grep 'connect postgres' <your_pg_dump_file" and it
will be found, as are any object in the postgres database..

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote:

> On 2015-10-28 14:09, anj patnaik wrote:
> >
> > Also, I want to know if anyone has found any handy cron scripts for
> automated
> > backups to run on a daily/weekly basis? i found some on google, but
> interested
> > to know if there are better ones.
>
> It does a lot more but:
>   https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
>
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