On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> is there a way to make an automated dump with pg_dump when the database
> access is password protected?
> I'd like to run it from a cron. However, I haven't found a way to
I do a daily backup with a shell script like this:
---8<---
#!/bin/sh
export PGUSER=<username>
export PGPASSWORD=<password>
/usr/local/bin/pg_dumpall > dump.sql
---8<---
This should be definitely more documented, as it took me also quite long
to find out :-)
regards,
le
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