Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 09.20 schrieb Nirav Parikh: > Hi, > > I am having problem backing up database from crontab, I got following > lines in crontab file > > > 0 20 * * 5 /usr/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -F c database > > /usr/backup/friDATE4.pgdump > 0 20 * * 4 pg_dump -F c database > /usr/backup/thurDATE06-3.pgdump > > none of them works, I have given full permission to everyone in > /usr/backup directory > > it creates the dump file but with 0 size - empty! > > I have other commands in crontab which executes normally, also pg_dump > command works through command line. > > does anyone what else I can check? Probably the permission at the database which the user has that owns the crontab file? Does the command work in a shell of this user? Best regards Ivo > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Nirav
