You could also try tweaking the following attached backup script.
Caution, I wrote this quickly from a skeleton script and has not been
tested.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> anj patnaik <patn...@gmail.com> writes:
> > My cron tab entry:
>
> > 0 20 * * * db_backup.sh 1> /dev/null 2>&1 | mail -s "backup cron"
> > myem...@comp.com
>
> > I am re-directing stderr to stdout and then sending that to email.
>
> Uh, read it again: you're redirecting stdout to /dev/null and then
> redirecting stderr to go where stdout goes.  So all output is
> going to the bit bucket, not the pipe.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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Description: Bourne shell script

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