[postgis-users] database backup?

[Nicolas RIBOT]

> This approach seems to work fine and gives me a working 
> database. Yet, during 
> the import process (psql ...), I receive multiple errors 
> mainly something 
> like 'psql:<stdin>:261037: invalid command \N'. And in the 
> dump file the line 
> 251037 is just '.\'. Any idea what this is or does?
> 

I had a similar error caused by newline termination in my sql file: it
was generated on Windows, with CrLf characters for the end of line, and
ran on Linux, where Lf is the new line termination.
Converting the file to the unix format solved this error message

Nicolas