Re: Backup Strategies? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ray Stell
Subject Re: Backup Strategies?
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Msg-id 20070206133333.GI32722@cns.vt.edu
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In response to Re: Backup Strategies?  (Phillip Smith <fukawi2@iinet.net.au>)
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:28:48PM +1100, Phillip Smith wrote:
> 1) As part of a backup script, call pg_dumpall as the postgres *nix
> users and PG user, then pipe the output to a file on a remote server.

might consider adding scp to the mix so that the data is not in
the clear on the wire.  You can use the authorized_keys feature
so that passwd is not needed in the script.

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