Re: Automating Backup & Restore

Jan de Visser wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007 10:39:23 smiley2211 wrote:
>
>> Does someone have a script that backups a database from one server
>> and restores it to another server???  I am NEW to Postgresql so I
>> am starting from scratch...
>
>
> $ pg_dump -h server1 database | psql -h server2
>
> jan
>

Further to this, Shane Ambler posted this response just yesterday in
response to a similar question:

> If you want to copy your database to a development machine
> occasionally, then if they have the same hardware and postgres
> version then you should be able to copy the data files across while
> the production server is stopped without problems. Some differences
> between CPU and postgres version can stop this from working.
>
> You could also do the dump/restore directly from one machine to
> another if they are on the same network without having the dump file
> to transfer across and import which will give similar results.
>
> eg. instead of - pg_dumpall > mybackupfile psql -h
> my.other.machine.address < mybackupfile
>
> you can -
>
> pg_dumpall | psql -h my.other.machine.address
>
> If you have different cpu's (one Intel and one AMD64) or different
> postgres versions then you will have to do the dump/restore even if
> it is sent straight from one to another.

See this thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-10/msg01178.php

brian