Thanks all. The COPY command seems to do the work. One more thing, say I want the data dumped on a remote machine rather than on the current machine, how would I do that without having to first dump it on the local machine then uploading to the remote machine? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-help-on-how-to-backup-a-table-tp16346381p16347825.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general