From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: mcelroy, tim <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: backups
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:35:14 -0500
Message-ID: <1147289714.9755.44.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
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On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:11, mcelroy, tim wrote:
> Excellent point Bruno, thanks. I must admit that I did think of that
> and have already copied all my .conf files to the backup directory. I
> should have noted that earlier.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
Another thing to check is that your global data (i.e. user accounts) are
being backed up. pg_dumpall does this, but individual pg_dumps do not.
In our prod environment we run a backup of those accounts with
'pg_dumpall -g' every night as well.
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