Thread: How I can know a back up database is up to date
Hello My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table). If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property. How I can do the same thing with a back up database. Ta.
On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote: > My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this > database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table). > > If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property. > How I can do the same thing with a back up database. Do the backup from a shell script that names the output file with the current date/time. Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@iol.ie ---------------------------------------------------------------
Timestamp in pg_dump output, was Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date
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Raymond O'Donnell
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On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote: > My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this > database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table). > > If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property. > How I can do the same thing with a back up database. Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows) doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only helpful to a point. :-) Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@iol.ie ---------------------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamp in pg_dump output, was Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date
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Richard Broersma Jr
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--- Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote: > On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote: > > > My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this > > database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table). > > > > If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property. > > How I can do the same thing with a back up database. > > Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in > the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows) > doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only > helpful to a point. :-) If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it. I rolled this functionality into a .bat file. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.
Re: Timestamp in pg_dump output, was Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date
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Raymond O'Donnell
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On 10/08/2007 18:40, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it. Heh heh, I just gave this same advice in reply to the post that prompted this idea. :-) Thanks, Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@iol.ie ---------------------------------------------------------------
Re: Timestamp in pg_dump output, was Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date
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Tom Lane
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"Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@iol.ie> writes:
> Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in
> the plain-text output.
Use the "verbose" option.
regards, tom lane
Re: Timestamp in pg_dump output, was Re: How I can know a back up database is up to date
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Raymond O'Donnell
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On 10/08/2007 19:10, Tom Lane wrote: > Use the "verbose" option. [/me tries it out....] That'll do nicely - thanks. Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@iol.ie ---------------------------------------------------------------