Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B37B5DBBE for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:14:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00593-01 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:14:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from pluto.tkmb.ch (pluto.tkmb.ch [80.74.155.185]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270D8B5D94C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:14:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [172.16.63.102] [81.221.8.117] by mail.tkmb.ch with ESMTP (SMTPD-11.03) id a46c000003bd046d; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:13:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF1A811.2090202@bednarz.ch> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:13:53 +0200 From: Thomas Bednarz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: calling pg_dump from perl References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201106/51 X-Sequence-Number: 37677 Hi Greg, Yeah, thanks a lot. Works perfect. The correct perl code is: my $backupargs = sprintf("-f \"%s\" -F p --clean -U postgres -h localhost %s", $backupfile, $DBName); Cheers Thomas Am 09.06.2011 22:16, schrieb Greg Sabino Mullane: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > >> COMMAND: E:\PostgreSQL\8.4SS\bin/pg_dump.exe -f >> //nas-tb/DBBackups/PostgresDBBackup_TB-WS_misdwh_20110609151147.bak -F p >> --clean -U postgres -h localhost misdwh > ... >> The interesting thing is, that it asks for a password for a database >> named "TB". Only god knows where that comes from! The name of my >> database is 'misdwh' and as can be seen on the command is passed as last >> parameter. > I would guess that TB is coming from the underscore in the filename. > Try quoting the entire argument to -f like so: > > E:\PostgreSQL\8.4SS\bin/pg_dump.exe > -f "//nas-tb/DBBackups/PostgresDBBackup_TB-WS_misdwh_20110609151147.bak" > -F p --clean -U postgres -h localhost misdwh > > - -- > Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com > End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ > PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201106091615 > http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iEYEAREDAAYFAk3xKfEACgkQvJuQZxSWSsgyVACfQhuu35ITUETQ9aGT0muPrGb+ > fnsAnRrfEaMdBNcou9UVvln0EpxYfvHf > =SNZ6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >