Re: Automatic Backups

On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:00 PM, David A. Leedom wrote:

> I found that the registry entries use a GUID product code on the final
> node of the registry.  Is there any way to link this back to the
> running database?
>
> I could hard code the product codes into my backup app.  If for some
> reason there are more than one Postgres installs on one system would
> there be a way to determine the product code of the database I am
> backing up via the connect string?  (System tables/variables?)
>
> Another possibility is that I could include the pg_dump/restore
> utilities with the backup app and set it up to only backup databases
> of the correct version.
>

One idea is to use "pg_ctl.exe status" to determine if the server
associated with the registry entry is running. I think you'll also need
to specify the data directory with this command, so hopefully that is
in the registry also.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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