Re: pg_dumpall for Postgres Database Daily Backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vick Khera
Subject Re: pg_dumpall for Postgres Database Daily Backup
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Msg-id AANLkTintQ-bkaWgsZm-ftt7D5sWPqGJuSq1ALnB1mI7S@mail.gmail.com
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In response to pg_dumpall for Postgres Database Daily Backup  ("Wang, Mary Y" <mary.y.wang@boeing.com>)
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Wang, Mary Y <mary.y.wang@boeing.com> wrote:
> it looks like pg_dumpall > outfile is the best choice.  I'd like to ask the community to reconfirm.

We do an individual pg_dump on each DB separately, using the '-Fc'
format.  The only thing we miss from pg_dumpall we get via "pg_dumpall
--globals-only > globals.sql".  The "c" format is much more flexible
to restore bits of the database with judicious use of pg_restore and
awk or grep.

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