Creating a new server

I have a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server running currently and not showing any
problems. The hardware is several years old now and I am concerned it
will suffer a hardware fault. I am trying to be a little more proactive
and create a new server. I have the new system up and running Red Hat
Enterprise 4. Can someone point me to a How-to or give me some guidance
on how best to copy the database to the new server.

Ideally, I would like to have the two machines operate with one in a
standby mode. Each night using a cron job I would like to sync up the
database between the two machines.

I looked at pg_dump and attempted the following

>pg_dump [database name] > sync-trial.db

Connected to template1...

Psql: FATAL 1: user "jcarlson" does not exist

I do not know if pg_dump is the best way to do this, but I have included
it in the question to indicate what I attempted. If pg_dump is the
correct path to follow, how do I address the error?

Thanks,

Jim Carlson, Principal Scientist

RTI International

3040 Cornwallis Road

MCNC-Bldg. 1, Room 318

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

jcarlson(at)rti(dot)org

ph 919-248-9238

fax 919-248-1455

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