I use this script, run nightly via crontab, on my small pgsql servers. it runs as the postgres user.

#!/bin/bash
/usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pg_dumpall --globals-only | gzip > /home2/backups/pgsql/pgdumpall.globals.`date +\%a`.sql.gz for db in $(psql -tc "select datname from pg_database where not datistemplate"); do \ pg_dump -Fc -f /home2/backups/pgsql/pgdump.$i.$(date +\%a).dump $db
        done


this creates a globals-only backup and a seperate backup of each database, for each day of the week.



--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz



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