Re: automating backups with windows scheduled tasks and pg_dumpall

From: Tom Hart <tomhart(at)coopfed(dot)org>
To: Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: automating backups with windows scheduled tasks and pg_dumpall
Date: 2007-11-15 22:22:48
Message-ID: 473CC6B8.1090207@coopfed.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Tom Hart <tomhart(at)coopfed(dot)org> writes:
>
>> Do scheduled tasks
>> have a problem writing to files with > ? I tried an "echo this is a test
>>
>>> test.txt" and that didn't run either.
>>>
>
> I know zip about Windows, but try using pg_dump's -f switch instead of ">"
> and see if it gets happier.
>
Good tip, and something I hadn't tried yet, but still not working. I'm
sure the problem lies within strange behavior of scheduled tasks, but
they were not super helpful on the microsoft newsgroups, and I was
hoping to find somebody that had a working windows-based automated
backup "in the wild" if you will. Thanks anyway though, I'll keep trying.

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