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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:48:59 +0200
From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
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Subject: Re: pg_dump
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Nirav Parikh's cat, on 10/10/2005 7.30, walking on the keyboard wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to write cronjob so it will backup database everynight on
> another machine. 
> Currently is doing it on the same machine with this script. 
>  
> 20 13 * * * pg_dump -F c -f /root/database.pgdump database
>  
> How can I send it to different machine. Machine IP address is
> 192.168.1.13

You can use ssh to copy the dump file to another machine. Configuring 
ssh to use ssh_agent you will not be required to insert a passwrod, thus 
you can do it automatically. I guess there's also an option to specify 
the password on the command line.


>  
> Is it possible to write pg_restore job ones it finishes dumping on that
> machine?

I guess you can write a shell script that checks, periodically, if the 
restore file has been copied, then restores it and delete the files 
(thus to not restore it infinitely).

Luca

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Luca Ferrari
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