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Proper way to do backup (and restore!) with PostgreSQL 🐘 — First published in fullweb.io issue #51
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Proper way to do backup (and restore!) with PostgreSQL 🐘

Postgres provides us several options to do backup just like we want. I’ve tried several strategies in the past, and here is the one I stick to now, for both its simplicity and efficiency.

Backup your database with:

# This is using Postgres custom format
pg_dump -Fc dbname > filename

And recover it as follow:

# First create the DB with:
createdb -O owner_user dbname
# And then populate it:
pg_restore -d dbname filename
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