I tried it from the shell also, but it still gives me the same error can you tell me proper way of working with shell, since i am not used to work with that.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:07:00PM +0530, tasneem dewaswala wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to take a backup of my database using > > > > pg_dump -Ft *mydatabasename* > *mydatabase*.tar; > > > > but it gives me an error as "syntax error at or near "pg_dump"" > > i don't understand what is the problem. > > You have to run it from a shell, not from the psql monitor. > Also, I'd recommend -Fc, not -Ft, for possible use with postgis_restore.pl[1] > > [1] > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#hard_upgrade > > --strk; > > http://www.cartodb.com - Map, analyze and build applications with your > data > > ~~ http://strk.keybit.net > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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