On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Phillip Smith
<phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au> wrote:
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4
> RedHat ES4
>
> I have a nightly cron job that is (supposed) to dump a specific database to
> magnetic tape:
> /usr/local/bin/pg_dump dbname > /dev/st0
>
> This runs, and doesn't throw any errors, but when I try to restore it fails
> because the tape is incomplete:
A couple of possible things to try; pg_dump to a text file and try
cat'ting that to the tape drive, or pipe it through tar and then to
the tape.