On 07/11/2012 18:57, Ryan Delaney wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <r...@iol.ie > <mailto:r...@iol.ie>> wrote: > > On 07/11/2012 13:01, Gary wrote: > > Can anyone suggest how I could verify that the files created by > pg_dump > > are "okay"? They are being created for backup purposes, and the last > > thing I want to do is find out that the backups themselves are in some > > way corrupt. > > > > I know I can check the output of the command itself, but what if.. I > > don't know... if there are problems with the disc it writes to, or > > something like that. Is there any way to check whether the output file > > is "valid" in the sense that it is complete and syntactically correct? > > Reload it and test your application against it? > > Ray. > > > -- > Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland > r...@iol.ie <mailto:r...@iol.ie> > > > Would that entail over-writing good data with possibly bad data?
No, reload your database into a newly-created database - on a test server, not on the production server! Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland r...@iol.ie -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
