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

Another version to get the list of databases:
psql -lqt | grep -vE '^ +(template[0-9]+|postgres)? *\|' | cut -d'|' -f1| sed -e 's/ //g' -e '/^$/d'

As my psql -lqt output is:

 abcdefghij         | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | 
 postgres           | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | 
 template0          | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres          +
                    |          |          |             |             | postgres=CTc/postgres
 template1          | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres          +
                    |          |          |             |             | postgres=CTc/postgres
 abc                | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |