Victor Sudakov wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>If I have to organize an automatic nightly pg_dumpall, how do I handle
>authentication ? I do not want to create a passwordless superuser (or
>trust method in pg_hba.conf), and there is noone to enter the password
>manually. Is there another recipe?
>
>Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>
>
use crontab
run this daily
su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -b -Ft -f db.tar -h
machine_name_of_db your_db"
Kemin
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