Hello, Iam trying to take a dump of my DB from one machine to another in this fashion: on the secondary database: pg_dump -b -h 172.16.1.20 (dbname) > /tmp/dump.dump my error is : could not connect to database etc...etc.. although the file dump.dump in /tmp is created.(it's empty) I can access remote database on my secondary through phpPgAdmin. Any clues?? Askar Zaidi Central Computer Facility, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India