Pat Maddox wrote:
I've got postgresql 8 running on my system, and want to do nightly backups of the database.
I recommend 1- Nightly dumpall 2- More frequent backup of databases that change often. You can setup a script like: #!/bin/sh PGUSER=<user> PGPASSWORD=<passwd> export PGUSER export PGPASSWORD /usr/local/bin/pg_dumpall |/usr/bin/bzip2 -c > <backup_file> Of course you can change it to a "sh" script. :-) For the single DB ones you can use #!/bin/sh PGUSER=<user> PGPASSWORD=<password> export PGUSER export PGPASSWORD cd <backup dir> echo Dumping database to BACKUP directory pg_dump <db> > db.sql echo Making tar file tar -cyvf `date "+%Y%m%d"`-db.tbz db.sql Hope that helps. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
