Re: database backup

If you are using a Unix environment then you should use cron and then 
pg_dump in order to produce a complete backup of the database.

See the pg_dump --help for complete list of commands

Then the shell script in the cron job can call pg_dump with the relevant 
options

HTH

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sanjeev Rathore wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am looking into how I should backup my PostgreSQL
> database.  Is there a way to do incremental backup?  I
> think incremental back seems to be a better solution
> in the long run, because it is more scalable.  Does
> anybody have any suggestions as to how I should go
> about backing up my database?  
> 
> thanks,
> Sanjeev 
> 
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