Thanks Phillip,
I think the source of my problem was me being dumb and only capturing stdout, rather than stderr and stdout! I needed the "2>&1" on the end.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@xxxxxxxxxxx>; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, 19 May, 2008 1:05:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore test procedures (a bit OT)
>
> > I was just wondering if anyone has any clever way of testing their backups
> taken with pg_dump on a daily basis?
> I have a daily bash script to backup of one of my databases to file, then
> file to tape, which I test restore once per week. I've changed some of my
> variables to hard-coded strings to make it shorter and easier to understand
> at a quick read. Yes I know it's kinda fschked but it's working atm. I'll
> tidy it up eventually....
>
>
> if [ "$DAY" = "Mon" ] ; then
> echo "Test restoring database..." >> $LOG_FILE
>
> if [ 1 -eq 1 ] ; then
> # Debugging
> $ECHO "Restoring from: ${BACKUP_PATH}"
> $ECHO "Restoring to Directory: ${TMPDNAME}"
> $ECHO "Restore Database: ${DBNAME}${DATESTRING}"
> $ECHO "Restore Source File: ${TMPFILE}"
> fi
>
> echo -n "Extracting database dump from tape... "
> tar xf /dev/st0 --directory /tmp
> if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
> echo "FAIL"
> echo " Failed to Restore from /dev/st0 to /tmp/" >>
> $LOG_FILE
> SHOW_ERR=true
> fi
>
> if [ ${SHOW_ERR} != true ] ; then
> ### Note: $DATESTRING = yymmdd (eg. 080519)
> echo "Creating new database ${DBNAME}${DATESTRING}" >>
> $LOG_FILE
> /usr/local/bin/psql --command "CREATE DATABASE
> ${DBNAME}${DATESTRING} ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII';" > /dev/null
> if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
> echo "Restoring /tmp/psqldump.sql.502 to
> ${DBNAME}${DATESTRING}" >> $LOG_FILE
> /usr/local/bin/psql ${DBNAME}${DATESTRING} <
> /tmp/psqldump.sql.502
> else
> echo "Failed to Create Database!" >> $LOG_FILE
> SHOW_ERR=true
> fi
> fi
> Fi
>
>
> > su - $PGUSER -c "pg_restore -h localhost -U postgres --disable-triggers -c
> -d $database $backup_dir/$server-$database-data.gz" >> $logfile
> > or
> > su - $PGUSER -c "pg_restore -h localhost -U postgres --disable-triggers -c
> -d $database $backup_dir/$server-$database-data.gz >> $logfile"
>
> Perhaps something like this: (it's Monday morning, so I might be suggesting
> something stupid)
> LOG=`su - $PGUSER -c "pg_restore -h localhost -U postgres --disable-triggers
> -c -d $database $backup_dir/$server-$database-data.gz"`
> echo $LOG >> $logfile
>
>
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