Lawrence C, On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:20, you went: > Anyone good in writing Linux scripting for backup > PostgreSQL. I just required a simple scripts only. > > Normally we do the manual ways as following: > > In root > > root# su - postgres > bash# pgdumpall > backup.sql > bash# exit > root# > > I'm planning to write script.sh for cronjob but not > too sure about it. Can anyone contribute the scripts > for me?
Er ... #! /usr/bin/bash pgdumpall > backup.sql I'm being cheeky, but surely if you set that up as a cronjob for user 'postgres' that would do it? Are your needs more complex than this? cheers tim hall ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend