Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron

Thank you all,

Yes, I used the absolute path in my script and now works ok :-)

Thank you again
Sorin

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Frank Wittig
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 4:01 PM
To: Sorin N. Ciolofan
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron

Hello Sorin!

Sorin N. Ciolofan wrote:

>     #!/bin/bash
>     time=`date '+%d'-'%m'-'%y'`
>     cd /home/swkm/services/test
>       pg_dump mydb > mydb_dump_$time.out

You should output STDERR to some error logfile or set MAILTO in your
crontab.
I guess you then would have seen an error message saying that pg_dump
was not found because cron doesn't load the users environment and
therefore PATH variable isn't set.
I suggest you call pg_dump in your script by absolute path.

Greetings,
Frank Wittig