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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/10/2011 20:18, Carlos Mennens wrote:I think you also need to make it executable:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:12 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> /path/to/pg_dumpall | gzip > /path/to/pgbackup-$(date -I).sql.gz
>
> Thanks John. I've never written a script so do I just use 'Vim' to
> open a new file and just paste the following line?
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/pg_dumpall | gzip > /var/db_backup/pg_backup-$(date -I).sql.gz
>
> Is that all I need to do or is there more steps / data involved?
chmod u+x my_backup_script
...or something like that.
Ray.
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