Reliable and scrptable backup to Postgresql databases.

I am looking to setup a reliable and automatic way to backup my Postgresql database to a remote server.

What I have tried is to use the PG_Dumpall function to dump the contents of my databases. And then have a remote machine use SMB to back up the files using our backup system. My problem is that pg_dumpall wants a password for the account I want to use to run the backup.

Is there a better way to do this. If my understanding is correct, It would be a bad thing for me to just try to tarball the /pgsql folder when the databases is running. I cannot readily take the database offline to run the backup as it is a key part of running a webserver and some network utilities.

Does anyone have an suggestions on how to do this well. I also have to be able to backup my BLOBS that are in the database.

Thanks in advance.

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