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 Can you get connect with psql -h 172.16.1.20 (dbname) I think, you /etc/pg_hba.conf must be configured to grant this access. And don't forget to reload the postmaster after this. Look in the log of postgresql. Bye Thomas