Failures during backup about ghostwriter HOT 3 CLOSED

You can change the user on install, but most people leave it at the default. That's fine, but then there is this conflict with the PostgreSQL maintenance scripts.

I can't find anything that states PostgreSQL backups and restores do not work with a user named postgres. It's only in the community scripts. It looks like a safeguard against the postgres user not working for backups on some *nix systems. It works without any issues in Ghostwriter's containers so I've removed the checks in the scripts for v4.0.1.

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Hey @Anthirian,

The Postgres backup script Ghostwriter uses doesn't like that your user is the default postgres account. It's a best practice to not use postgres, but it can get in the way here. I've considered removing that check.

You can do that by editing this file and removing these lines: https://github.com/GhostManager/Ghostwriter/blob/master/compose/production/postgres/maintenance/backup#L23

You can also follow the steps outlined in this issue to change your user:

#322

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Thanks, I followed the suggestions and created the backup_user and used the same password that Ghostwriter already set during install. Is there any reason not to do this by default during install?

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