pg_dump of a big table

Hi all,

I need to do a backup from a big table that is in a machine with almost no disk space.
Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes?

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Nelson

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