Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-10 Thread sub_woofer
Hello all Thank you very much for your responses! I realised that the restores were not working as the databases were not being...backed up!...oops! After I did the reinstallation of the OS I forgot to give permissions in postgresql for the user doing the backup in ubuntu! I have fixed this. I h

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-08 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > You're probably better off switching to explicitly backing up > databases in the custom format and using a single pg_dumpall --globals > to backup the users accounts and such.  That's how I prefer to do it > and it makes life much easier. Thi

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-07 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:54:47PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > You're probably better off switching to explicitly backing up > databases in the custom format and using a single pg_dumpall --globals > to backup the users accounts and such. -g --globals-only Dump only global objects (roles

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:42 AM, sub_woofer wrote: > > Hello all > > To backup my postgresql data I use the pg_dumpall command which dumps all my > databases to a .sql file. > > If I would like to restore a single database from this file how would I do > this? Is it possible using PgAdmin - as this

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-06 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 06/08/2009 13:42, sub_woofer wrote: > Hello all > > To backup my postgresql data I use the pg_dumpall command which dumps all my > databases to a .sql file. > > If I would like to restore a single database from this file how would I do > this? Is it possible using PgAdmin - as this only allows

[GENERAL] Postgresql Backups

2009-08-06 Thread sub_woofer
Hello all To backup my postgresql data I use the pg_dumpall command which dumps all my databases to a .sql file. If I would like to restore a single database from this file how would I do this? Is it possible using PgAdmin - as this only allows us to restore a database from a .backup file??? Wh