Re: Constructing a backup routine

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 05:50, Johnny Jørgensen wrote:
> I've been over the docs, Bruce's book, and a good part of the web, where
> there are plenty documentation on COPY, \copy and pgdump, but I have yet
> to make a working backup (and the system goes into production state in 3
> weeks..). The problem is, i get my data moved out & in fine, but
> sequences are reset? This is, of course, something of a problem, since
> it breaks new inserts into unique colums from sequences after a restore.
> Also, I've been putting a lot of work into some plpgsql functions, that
> I have to load manually - there's only a handful, so it isn't too big a
> problem, but all in all, to get a near-workable backup, takes me an hour
> or so by hand..
>
> What way do you big folks handle backing up your systems?
>
> regards,
Hi,

I ran into the same problem and the only way I could get pg_dump to work was
to dump the entire database instead of just the tables.

GB

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