On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <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
>
>
Would that entail over-writing good data with possibly bad data?

Ryan

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