Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron
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Msg-id 20071122135318.GO21682@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron  ("Marco Bizzarri" <marco.bizzarri@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron  ("Marco Bizzarri" <marco.bizzarri@gmail.com>)
Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron  (Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com>)
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Marco Bizzarri wrote:
>
> why don't you add a "MAILTO=<youraddress>" at the start of your
> crontab file, so that you can receive a report of the problem?

Note: check that your cron accepts such an addition.  Many systems now use
Vixie's cron, which does accept that, but some don't.  It's a nice feature,
and good for this purpose.

A

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