Re: How to verify pg_dump files

On 07/11/2012 13:01, Gary wrote:
> Can anyone suggest how I could verify that the files created by pg_dump
> are "okay"? They are being created for backup purposes, and the last
> thing I want to do is find out that the backups themselves are in some
> way corrupt.
>
> I know I can check the output of the command itself, but what if.. I
> don't know... if there are problems with the disc it writes to, or
> something like that. Is there any way to check whether the output file
> is "valid" in the sense that it is complete and syntactically correct?

Reload it and test your application against it?

Ray.


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