Re: [GENERAL] Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

2012-03-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/07/12 11:20 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: SCRIPTPATH=$(cd ${0%/*}&& pwd -P) thats line 7 by my count. thats some very strange stuff there. AFAIK ${0%/*} means, take $0 which is the name of the invoking command ('sh' in the invocation you gave), match and remove the results of the patte

Re: [GENERAL] Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

2012-03-07 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > whats that pg_backup.sh script look like?  you're getting shell errors on > line 7 and 8 of the script. I didn't attach it since it's the same as the link I referenced in my original post. I'll attach it in here for those that don't or can't

Re: [GENERAL] Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

2012-03-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/07/12 10:33 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: carlos@db1:~/postgresql$ sh pg_backup.sh pg_backup.sh: 7: cd: can't cd to pg_backup.sh pg_backup.sh: 8: pg_backup.sh: source: not found pg_backup.sh: 16: [: !=: unexpected operator Making backup directory in 2012-03-07/ pg_backup.sh: 54: pg_backup.sh: B

Re: [GENERAL] Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I'm trying to get the automated backup scripts to work from: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Automated_Backup_on_Linux > > Currently I'm using PostgreSQL 9.1.3 and have the following three files: > > carlos@db1:~/postgresql$ ls -l > tota

[GENERAL] Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

2012-03-07 Thread Carlos Mennens
I'm trying to get the automated backup scripts to work from: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Automated_Backup_on_Linux Currently I'm using PostgreSQL 9.1.3 and have the following three files: carlos@db1:~/postgresql$ ls -l total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 carlos users 4096 Mar 7 13:13 backup -rw-r--r-- 1