May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
The following steps assume that a number of environment variables have been set, which are as follows:
These assumptions are not strictly required, but they make the whole procedure simpler and more readable, because we can avoid adding lots of command line options to specify the data directory or any connection detail every time we connect to the database.
The initial procedure is step 1 onwards. If you are running subsequent backups, start from step 3.