pg_backup_restore/README.md

Postgres Backup and Restore Script

This is a bash script that allows you to backup and restore a specified PostgreSQL database with a timestamp in the backup file's name.

Usage

./script.sh [-b|--backup] [-r|--restore] [-d|--database] [-h|--help] database_name

• -b or --backup: backup the specified database
• -r or --restore: restore the specified database
• -d or --database: specify the name of the database
• -h or --help: display the usage help text

Example

./script.sh -b -d mydatabase

This will backup the database mydatabase

./script.sh -r -d mydatabase

This will restore the database mydatabase from the latest backup file.

Requirements

• postgresql
• postgresql_utils

Deployment

This script can be deployed using nix package manager, you can find an example of a flake.nix file in the repository that you can use to deploy the script and its dependencies.

Please make sure you don't overwrite any important files by creating a new backup file with the same name.