On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rodrigo Sakai wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to do a backup of a database that is larger then 4 GB. But it gets an error when the file size gets 1.2 GB! I think its an Operational System problem (linux)! So, I want to know if exists some solution to backup my database?? > > The command that I used was= > > pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D -f 'backup.sql' > > The operational system is linux with etx filesystem, and the version of postgres is 7.4!! You can try: pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D |bzip2 -c >backup.sql.bz2 bzip2 compresses better than gzip. Restoration: bzcat backup.sql.bz2|psql - postgres -d dbdeveloper Cheers, -- --Jyry C|:-( C|:-/ C|========8-O C|8-/ C|:-(
