I will test today.
There are some good practices that I should do? For example, I have this database in a shared hosting, should I add the functionality of send the dumps by FTP to my PC once a week? Give some more ideias to avoid data loss in case of disaster.
Best Regards,
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, several of us discussed something like this recently. Are you looking to back up all databases on the cluster or just an individual database?On 12 May 2010 16:30, Andre Lopes <lopes80andre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,
I'am looking fo a shell script do Backup/Dump my PostgreSQL twice a day.
I will need to do a full dump (schema + data), schema dump (only schema) and data (only data)
There is something done on this subject? I'am very poor in shell script, there are some scripts on the web ready to use?
Best Regards,
If it's a cluster, you could have a shell script like this:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`
pg_dumpall -U postgres | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/FULL.sql.gz
pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/SCHEMA.sql.gz
pg_dumpall -a -U postgres | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/DATA.sql.gz
If you want a single database, try this:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`
pg_dump -U postgres my_database | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/my_database_FULL.sql.gz
pg_dump -s -U postgres my_database | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/my_database_SCHEMA.sql.gz
pg_dump -a -U postgres my_database | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/my_database_DATA.sql.gz
If you want each individual database, try this:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`
query="select datname from pg_database where not datistemplate and datallowconn;"
for line in `psql -U postgres -At -c "$query" postgres`
do
pg_dump -U postgres "$line" | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/"$line"_FULL.sql.gz
pg_dump -s -U postgres "$line" | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/"$line"_SCHEMA.sql.gz
pg_dump -a -U postgres "$line" | gzip > /tmp/`date +\%Y\%m\%d`/"$line"_DATA.sql.gz
done
Obviously you can change the output location to something other that /tmp if you're not going to transfer it anywhere. Just make sure the path exists. If you are copying it away immediately after, make sure you delete it or they'll build up.
If you want to schedule it, bung it in a shell script like backup_databases.sh and stick it in the root crontab.
Regards
Thom
