Tim Penhey wrote:
> Richard Huxton mentioned:
>
>>
>>The pg_dump utility is the standard way to backup PostgreSQL and the
>>custom format is already compressed.
> The question though is how to call this from a java servlet / hopefully in a OS
> independant way.
Well, obviously file-paths can be dealt with simply, and pg_dump will
output to a named file, so you're ok there.
As for safely calling external programs, that's probably more a question
for the servlet system (Tomcat I think you said) - it's not different to
calling any other external program.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
