Re: Backup with Java

[Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>]

Hi, tomaso,

tommaso(dot)taruffi(at)ricesoft(dot)it wrote:

> I have a question about how I can make a database backup
> with Java. I have made a class Connection.java that connect
> my application with Postgresql Database. I would make a
> function in this class for backup the state of the database.

If you want to make a complete, generic backup procedure, you'll have to
extract the necessary knowledge from the source of pg_dump / pg_dumpall.
AFAICT, there's no other place where this knowledge is documented.

In case something application-specific is enough, it's best to use a
domain specific data format for output.

HTH,
Markus
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