On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:11, mcelroy, tim wrote: > Excellent point Bruno, thanks. I must admit that I did think of that > and have already copied all my .conf files to the backup directory. I > should have noted that earlier. > > Thanks, > Tim Another thing to check is that your global data (i.e. user accounts) are being backed up. pg_dumpall does this, but individual pg_dumps do not. In our prod environment we run a backup of those accounts with 'pg_dumpall -g' every night as well.