How Do I Backup My PostgreSQL Database with Cron?

Question

I can run commands like vacuumdb, pg_dump, and psql just fine in a script if I preface them like so:

/usr/bin/sudo -u postgres /usr/bin/pg_dump -Fc mydatabase &g         


        

Answer 1

databases=psql -h localhost -U postgres -q -x -t -c "\l" | grep 'Name' | sed 's/ //g' | sed 's/Name|//g'