Hey everyone, I've got several Postgres databases on a machine that I need to backup. I've got a backup shell script that works fine, but it runs as the "postgres" user and I need a directory where I can save the backups. This is a Debian server. I see there's a /var/backups folder so I thought maybe I would create a /var/backups/postgres folder and save the backups there. I set the permissions and ownership of the directory to: drwxrwsr-x 2 root postgres 160 Jan 27 13:50 postgres I get the following error when I run the backup script as the postgres user: pg_dump: [custom archiver] could not open archive file /var/backups/postgres/mtdb.out: Permission denied What am I doing wrong? -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 public key: 0x8C0F8813 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list