Creating shell scripts and cron jobs are pretty easy tasks in *nix. I wanted to attach a sample
BAT file script for anyone that is enterested in get something similar to work under windows.
Comments are welcome.
Copy this text below into you own <newly created> bat file and then create a new "scheduled job"
by:
open "Control Panel"
open "Scheduled Tasks"
open "Add Scheduled Tasks"
Browse to where you saved you bat file.
Configure a the schedule and how many time a day you would like your db dumped.
I didn't attach my bat file to this email since I expect most email filters would balk at a bat
file. Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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REM Backup BAT file script begins here
REM Set these variables to what is appropriate for your system
SET PGPATH="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2rc1\bin\"
SET SVPATH="O:\02U20410 Rule 1105\Engr\Controls\Instrument Index\db_backup\"
SET ALTPTH="C:\Documents and Settings\BroersR\My Documents\db_backupalt\"
SET PRJDB=proj02u20411
SET DBUSR=postgres
REM This is an ugly solution to get a timestamp for the newly created
REM dump file.
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3,4 DELIMS=/ " %%i IN ('DATE /T') DO SET d=%%k-%%i-%%j
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2,3 DELIMS=: " %%i IN ('TIME /T') DO SET t=%%i%%j%%k
SET DBDUMP=%PRJDB%-%d%-%t%.dump
%PGPATH%pg_dump.exe -C -U %DBUSR% %PRJDB% > %SVPATH%%DBDUMP%
copy %SVPATH%%DBDUMP% %ALTPTH%
REM Backup BAT file script ends here
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