On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:01:39PM +0100, Frederic Massot wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:43:01 +0100, Frederic Massot > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>On the PostgreSQL 6.5 server I use this shell script (see below) for the > >>backup all of the database in several files, one file per database. > > > >Maybe i'm just not following you, but why can't you just do: > >pg_dump $DBNAME >$DB_NAME > > > >where $DB_NAME is the name of each database on the box? > > > > This script is called in a crontab the every day at 6 o'clock in the > morning.
You can obtain the list of databases for scripting with psql -tlA | cut -d\| -f1 -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "Si quieres ser creativo, aprende el arte de perder el tiempo" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster