Thread: backup another server

Hi!!
I wanna take a whole database running in a box1 pg7.3.4 and moving to
another box2 with 7.3.4 too.
There is a fast way to do that??
Which??/



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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Edwin Quijada wrote:

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> Hi!!
> I wanna take a whole database running in a box1 pg7.3.4 and moving to
> another box2 with 7.3.4 too.
> There is a fast way to do that??
> Which??/

The way I do it is:

pg_dumpall -h source_machine |psql -h dest_machine

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:46, Edwin Quijada wrote:
>
> Hi!!
> I wanna take a whole database running in a box1 pg7.3.4 and moving to
> another box2 with 7.3.4 too.
> There is a fast way to do that??
> Which??/

oldserver:~ pg_dumpall foo.dmp && scp foo.dmp newserver:.
oldserver:~ ssh newserver
newserver:~ pg_restore foo.dmp

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