Re: doing backups

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Moray McConnachie <moray(dot)mcconnachie(at)computing-services(dot)oxford(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)pgsql(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: doing backups
Date: 2000-04-04 10:12:55
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10004041212030.6042-100000@Utter.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Moray McConnachie wrote:

> I missed the first half of this, but, if I have understood correctly, I
> don't think this is the case: you can do automated backups by doing
>
> echo -e 'username\npassword\n' | pg_dump -u databasename

The problem is concerning pg_dumpall. You can't assume that all databases
are password protected, nor that the same password works for all of them.

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