On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:54, filippo wrote: > Hello, > > my database is not very big so I want to adopt this backup strategy: > > I want to clone my database every 1 hour to another > database 'currenttime_mydatabase' in order to have 24 backup a day, > overwriting the yesterday backups by today-same-time backups. > > This is good for me because I have all the backups readily available > to be read by my program (opening the backup read only). This is a > very important for my needs. > > I'm writing a script run by cron each hour to do accomplish the backup > task. > > My target is to have the backup operation not affecting the users, so > I want to be able to copy a database even if the database is used by > someone. > > Can I use > CREATE DATABASE my_backup_database TEMPLATE current_database? > > Is there a better way to get what I need? Create database ain't gonna work, cause it needs a database with no users connected. You could do: dropdb hour_13; createdb hour_13 pg_dump masterdb | psql hour_13 with the number after hour being a var you set every hour when you run it.
