Re: Backup Database Question

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
>   /path/to/pg_dumpall | gzip > /path/to/pgbackup-$(date -I).sql.gz

Thanks John. I've never written a script so do I just use 'Vim' to
open a new file and just paste the following line?

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pg_dumpall | gzip > /var/db_backup/pg_backup-$(date -I).sql.gz

Is that all I need to do or is there more steps / data involved?