Re: running pg_dumpall as a cron job

[Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>]

richard <richard(at)sheugh(dot)com> schrieb:

> Hi all 
> 
> I am trying to run pg_dumpall as a cron job. I find that while 
> pg_dump has an option -f to name a file for output this is 
> not available for pg_dumpall. After reading the manual, my  
> guess is that best practice is to run pg_dump for each database. 

No, you can use redirection:

pg_dumpall > dumpfile.sql


HTH, Andreas
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