Re: what is the best way to backup?

Depends what you want if you want schema, inserts etc.

Do pg_dump --help for a list of the valid switches and these will tell you
what they do

Darren

Darren Ferguson
Software Engineer
Openband

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David Siebert wrote:

> what is the best way to backup a database?
> The database I am working with does have a few columns that are of the type
> text.
> I know i should use pg_dump but what should the command line be?
>
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> The website still has the 7.1 doc set under "Release Docs"--shouldn't
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