On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:46:53 +0000
Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there scripts which takes backup of postgresql database and archive
> data older than 6 months and push it to a remote server using scp or rsync
> method and purge/clean the local data on the hard disk at the same time
> meaning at any given time we have only six months of postgresql data on the
> postgresql database server.
What system are you on?
On linux, you can use log_rotate to rotate your backups; just add a file to /etc/logrotate.d. Here is what I use to
keepa weekly backup over one year:
/var/backups/marica/marica.gz {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
notifempty
}
And here is a naive bash script to send a dump file to a remote server; it's launched by cron:
http://pastebin.com/Xg4wXdjy
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