Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EC51337B96 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:39:13 -0400 (AST) 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 87082-06 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:39:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849B51337B4F for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:39:06 -0400 (AST) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PMzGJ-0004IU-16 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:39:03 +0100 Received: from h-213.61.77.202.host.de.colt.net ([213.61.77.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:39:03 +0100 Received: from spam_eater by h-213.61.77.202.host.de.colt.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:39:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: Backup Postgres database remotely Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:38:58 +0100 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <20101129022411.2u7dmn477jhcc0sc@mail.artificialmachines.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-213.61.77.202.host.de.colt.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <20101129022411.2u7dmn477jhcc0sc@mail.artificialmachines.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201011/233 X-Sequence-Number: 36199 Manasi Save, 29.11.2010 08:24: > I am new to postgresql. I have pgadmin installed on my windows > machine locally using which i m connecting to the client server and > accessing the database. I want to take the backup of client database. > but it seems hard the database is very large. and when i select any > database and hit backup for that database it does not give me any > error message but it hangs at that point. To fix this i have to > restart the pgadmin. Did you try to use pg_dump directly instead of pgAdmin? Thomas