Re: dump of 700 GB database

I have to write a 700 GB large database to a dump to clean out a lot of dead records on an Ubuntu server with postgres 8.3.8. What is the proper procedure to succeed with this - last time the dump stopped at 3.8 GB size I guess. Should I combine the -Fc option of pg_dump and and the split command ?

I thought something like

"pg_dump -Fc test | split -b 1000m - testdb.dump"

might work ?

Karsten

Terra GIS LTD
Seattle, WA, USA