[ic] catalog dump

Bill Carr interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 11 08:13:01 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 08:02, Greg Goble wrote:
> 
> 
> Bill Carr Wrote:
> >> Well...believe it or not I'm now concerned about backing up my two
> catalogs
> >> on a daily basis. I'm more than confident in IC and have been since the
> >> Minivend days, and never had to rely on backups other than an 'export'
> from
> >> time-to-time.
> >>
> >> I'm under the impression that a dump can export my entire catalog (or at
> >> least what's important), but I just can't find the "how to's" in the IC
> >> ref's or listserv archives. A lot on session dumps, but I don't think
> that's
> >> what I'm after.
> >>
> >> How to run a daily cron that dumps or backups my two catalogs on IC
> 4.8.5/RH
> >> 7.3?
> 
> >$ man tar cron
> 
> Let me rephrase my question: Since I use pgsql with IC, how do I dump my
> catalogs
> so that I can run a daily cron job. It's dumping or backing up my IC cat's
> that is
> my concern. Thx, Greg
I don't know anything about pgsql. I use MySQL. In MySQL there is a
command line tool called mysqldump. Maybe pgsql has something similar. I
use a mysqldump command as a backup job with my tape backup software. 

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Bill Carr
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