Thread: End of Data test?

Hello,

I'm backing up my databases on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.  I'm
writing a script to further automate this process.  Is there a way
that I can test to make sure that pg_dump has actually backed up the
entire system.  It seems  like there should be a return code or
something that will tell me that there has been a normal completion.

Thanks,
Carol

> It seems  like there should be a return code or
> something that will tell me that there has been a normal completion.

I check for return code 0 in my scripts...
    $PG_DUMP --schema=${SCHEMA} ${DBNAME} > ${TMPFILE}
    RETVAL=$?
    if [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ] ; then
        echo 'Done!'
    else
        echo "Error! Return value was ${RETVAL}"
    fi

Cheers,
~p


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