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Dumping an entire postgres database
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
datetimestamp() { | |
local datebin="date"; | |
$datebin --resolution > /dev/null 2>&1 || datebin="gdate"; | |
$datebin --resolution > /dev/null 2>&1 || datebin="date"; | |
local format=${DATETIMESTAMPFORMAT:-'+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'}; | |
case "$1" in | |
--date=* | -d=*) | |
$datebin --date="${1#*=}" "$format" | |
;; | |
--date | -d) | |
$datebin --date="$2" "$format" | |
;; | |
--help | -h) | |
echo "Usage: datetimestamp [--date|-d[=| ]'date']"; | |
echo " --date|-d [date] date to use, defaults to now, see man date for format details"; | |
echo " --help|-h show this help"; | |
return 0 | |
;; | |
-*) | |
echo "Unknown option: $1" 1>&2; | |
datetimestamp -h; | |
return 2 | |
;; | |
*) | |
$datebin "$format" | |
;; | |
esac | |
} | |
pg_dump "$DATABASE_URL" -F c -Z 8 -b -v > ~/database_name-$(datetimestamp).sql | |
# -F c = format internally-compressed (custom structured binary output format for postgres that also includes additional features) | |
# -Z 8 = set zlib compression level (1-9) | |
# -b = use custom binary format that also compresses via zlib | |
# -v = be verbose |
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