On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
On 06/10/2011 20:18, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote: >> /path/to/pg_dumpall | gzip > /path/to/pgbackup-$(date -I).sql.gz > > Thanks John. I've never written a script so do I just use 'Vim' to > open a new file and just paste the following line? > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/pg_dumpall | gzip > /var/db_backup/pg_backup-$(date -I).sql.gz > > Is that all I need to do or is there more steps / data involved?
I think you also need to make it executable:
chmod u+x my_backup_script
...or something like that.
Ray.
-- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@iol.ie
