Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 09.20 schrieb Nirav Parikh:
> Hi,
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> I am having problem backing up database from crontab, I got following
> lines in crontab file
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> 0 20 * * 5 /usr/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -F c database >
> /usr/backup/friDATE4.pgdump
> 0 20 * * 4 pg_dump -F c database > /usr/backup/thurDATE06-3.pgdump
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> none of them works, I have given full permission to everyone in
> /usr/backup directory
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> it creates the dump file but with 0 size - empty!
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> I have other commands in crontab which executes normally, also pg_dump
> command works through command line.
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> does anyone what else I can check?
Probably the permission at the database which the user has that owns the
crontab file?
Does the command work in a shell of this user?
Best regards
Ivo
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> Nirav