How I can know a back up database is up to date
Hello
My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).
If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
How I can do the same thing with a back up database.
Ta.
On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote:
My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
How I can do the same thing with a back up database.
Do the backup from a shell script that names the output file with the
current date/time.
Ray.
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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote:
My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
How I can do the same thing with a back up database.
Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in
the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows)
doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only
helpful to a point. :-)
Ray.
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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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--- Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote:
My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
How I can do the same thing with a back up database.Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in
the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows)
doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only
helpful to a point. :-)
If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it.
I rolled this functionality into a .bat file.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
On 10/08/2007 18:40, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it.
Heh heh, I just gave this same advice in reply to the post that prompted
this idea. :-)
Thanks,
Ray.
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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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"Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@iol.ie> writes:
Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in
the plain-text output.
Use the "verbose" option.
regards, tom lane
On 10/08/2007 19:10, Tom Lane wrote:
Use the "verbose" option.
[/me tries it out....]
That'll do nicely - thanks.
Ray.
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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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