[Box Backup] Re: boxbackup + pg_dump

Roy boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:39:08 +0200


Anton Bogdanovitch wrote:
> Sorry. There was a typo.
>
> 1) pg_dumpall > dump.sql
> 2) pg_dumpall > dump.sql | gzip > dump.gz
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Hi Anton,

You shouldn't gzip it, because then Box Backup cannot efficiently backup 
the file. Because it then needs to diff a binary file instead of a text 
file.

Greets,

Roy