On Thu, 4 May 2006, Rodrigo Sakai wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to do a backup of a database that is larger then 4 GB. But
> it gets an error when the file size gets 1.2 GB! I think its an Operational
> System problem (linux)! So, I want to know if exists some solution to backup
> my database??
>
> The command that I used was=
>
> pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D -f 'backup.sql'
>
> The operational system is linux with etx filesystem, and the version of
> postgres is 7.4!!
You can try:
pg_dump -U postgres -d dbdeveloper -a -v -D |bzip2 -c >backup.sql.bz2
bzip2 compresses better than gzip.
Restoration:
bzcat backup.sql.bz2|psql - postgres -d dbdeveloper
Cheers,
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