Thread: Query regarding back up

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Kallol Nandi wrote:

> How can I have a scheduled vacuum and backup of the databases in PostgreSql.
> Does someone know it already?
> I need it urgently.

Use cron (I assume you're running Unix.)

A simple crontab entry to run 'vacuumdb -a -z -f' and pg_dump should do.

'man crontab' is a good place to start learning about cron.

Put pg_dumpall in cron.  Use vacuumdb in cron too.

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Kallol Nandi wrote:
> How can I have a scheduled vacuum and backup of the databases in PostgreSql.
> Does someone know it already?
> I need it urgently.
>
> Thanks,
> Kallol.

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