How to pass in password to pg_dump?

Question

I\'m trying to create a cronjob to back up my database every night before something catastrophic happens. It looks like this command should meet my needs:

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Answer 1

Note that, in windows, the pgpass.conf file must be in the following folder:

%APPDATA%\postgresql\pgpass.conf

if there's no postgresql folder inside the %APPDATA% folder, create it.

the pgpass.conf file content is something like:

localhost:5432:dbname:dbusername:dbpassword

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