Re: [Treebase-devel] pg_dump how best to run?

[Hilmar L. <hl...@du...>]

Rutger -

I would suggest that you post any backup requests that we want to rely  
on being able to restore from to the helpdesk at NESCent. This is one  
of our responsibilities as TreeBASE hosts, including being accountable  
if something goes wrong.

	-hilmar

On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am about to run a script that deletes orphaned taxonlabels from the
> database. These labels were created during an intermediate step of
> data bulk loading. They don't interfere with the integrity of genuine
> records, but may have some effect on performance (though probably not
> spectacular) so I want to get rid of them. Just to be on the safe
> side, I want to dump the database first. Also, this might be a good
> practice run if we want to release periodical database dumps to the
> public (the way itis and ncbi do). So what would be the best way to do
> this? Anyone have any experience running pg_dump?
>
> Rutger
>
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