Assuming you have created a backup file using setup.pl or the following command on the command line (which is the command line equivalent of what setup.pl does):
$ pg_dump -F c -f your_backup.bak your_company_database
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 19:44
As of 1.3.7 the backup functionality moved to setup.pl, the database administration interface.
Login with your ledgersmb database user / admin user. This can't be done using your normal LedgerSMB login account since it doesn't have enough rights to backup db and roles. The default address for setup.pl is http://localhost/ledgersmb/setup.pl.
The setup.pl backup facility consists of two parts:
The Perl code base consists of a part inherited from before the fork and a part rewritten since. These are identified below as "inherited code" and "new code" respectively.
This page describes the processes for creating minor (1.X.0, 2.Y.0) and patch (1.3.Z) releases. The process for creation of major (A.0.0) releases has yet to be defined.