> have a shell script that
performs a full online backup of postgres?
Full backup ex. pg_dumpall
Daily backup (dump) / database:
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#!/someshellpath like /bin/sh or /bin/bash or /bin/ksh ...
#daily.sh
#default plaintext
#usage: daily.sh [c|t|p]
#
PORT=5432
HOST="localhost"
DB="mysomedb"
DB_USER="myusername"
FORMAT="p" # c t p=plaintext
TYPE="txt"
COMPRESS=1
case "$1" in
c) FORMAT="c"; COMPRESS=0;;
t) FORMAT="t";;
p) FORMAT="p";;
esac
case "$FORMAT" in
c) TYPE=comp ;;
t) TYPE=tar ;;
p) TYPE="txt" ;;
esac
day=$(date '+%d');
pg_dump -F "$FORMAT" -p "$PORT" -h "$HOST" -U "$DB_USER" "$DB" >
daily.$day.backup.$TYPE
[ "$COMPRESS" = 0 ] && exit 0
# compress daily.$day.backup.$TYPE
gzip daily.$day.backup.$TYPE
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Remember - test also your restore procedure.
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