On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sam Mason <s...@samason.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:57:43PM +0000, Nelson Correia wrote: > > Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB > > host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes? > > pg_dump should use very little space on the server, it just streams it > out to where ever you tell it. You could run pg_dump on another host, > or do something like: > > pg_dump mydb | gzip | ssh otherbox "cat > out.sql.gz" Yes, from the other machine, run: [u...@notmyhost ]$ pg_dump -h myhost -U mydbuser mydb > out.sql --Scott
