thank you.
it listens to the local network, which are my two other MacBooks. I reported the bug to DaVinci. Hopefully the have a
fixthen I can put it back on md5.
thank you for your script.
will try it.
best
Robert
> On 13 Nov 2016, at 23:27, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/2016 1:01 PM, aws backup wrote:
>> thank you so much.
>> With your help I could solve all my problems.
>> DaVinci has a bug somewhere with the database configuration.
>> I installed everything new and set all auth method to trust instead of md5 which was default from DaVinci.
>
> trust is not very secure as it means any process on your system has full access to any database user including the
postgresdatabase administrator. hopefully this database server only has listen_addresses='localhost' and isn't
listeningon external network interfaces, otherwsie trust means any machine on your network can access it.
>
>
>
>> Now everything is working as expected. No errors anymore with the backup and restore buttons in DaVinci which are
justlinked to the pg_dump and pg_restore scripts.
>> The pg_dumpall approach was from the example scripts which are posted in the DaVinci Forum.
>> But this approach doesn't make sense … ?
>
> on a Linux system, my pg backup script looks like...
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ## postgres backup script
> DD=$(date +%a)
> PP=/backups/pgsql/
>
> pg_dumpall -g -f $PP/pg_dumpall.$p.globals-$DD.sql
> for db in $(psql -tc "select datname from pg_database where not datistemplate"); do
> pg_dump -Fc -f $PP/pgdump.$p.$db.$DD.dump -d $db
> done
>
>
> this generates a globals backup file, and a compressed backup from each non-system database. these compressed
backupsare restorable with the pg_restore command which has a lot of useful options (restore schema only, or restore
dataonly, etc etc). It also puts the day-of-the-week in the filename of each of these backups (thats what the DD
valueis for), so if you run this daily, you end up with 7 sets of files, one for each day of the week. if you change
%ato %F, then the filenames will instead contain like 2016-11-13 ...
>
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