Re: Postgres Backup Questions

Hey Again

    Thanks for the input. but what I am wanting to check for is CRC
errors and block errors. The backups are written to tape and I would
like a way to verify the data on the tape as compared to the data on the
server. I may be way off here but I just want to be sure I am getting
reliable backups.

Thanks

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:15, John R. Allgood wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>>     I have a question regarding backups on Postgresql 7.4.7-2. We are
>> currently using a Progress database and will be moving over to Postgres
>> this month. In Progress there is a way to verify your backups does
>> Postgres have anything similiar or is there other ways to accompplish
>> this. I am currently writing backup and other utility scripts and would
>> like to incorporate this into my program.
>>
>
> I wrapped my backup in a bash script, and that seems to catch errors.
> something like:
>
> if !(
>    /data01/pg/bin/pg_dump dbname > dbname.sql
>     );
> then
>     cat "backup failed"|mail -s "backup failed" yourname@yourdomain.com;
> fi
>
> To test this, I corrupted a table in a test database to force a hard
> failure, and it sent an email.  Don't know if it's a comprehensive test,
> but it seems to work for us.
>
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