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I want to create a backup of my postgres database via SSH connecting to a Windows Server 2019. I use the Paramiko Python library in order to do this, but unfortunately the sql-file does not contain any data (file size is 0 and files cannot not deleted as they are still opened in cmd). Thus, I suspect the execution of my command hasn't finished ... This is my function:

def ssh_server(server, username, password, pg_pass, ps_user, database):

    client = paramiko.SSHClient()
    client.load_system_host_keys()
    client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

    client.connect(hostname=server, username=username, password=password)

    stdin_2, stdout_2, stderr_2 = client.exec_command("SET PGPASSWORD=secret_pw")

    stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command(
        "pg_dump -U {} {} > kp_{}.sql\n".format(
            ps_user, database, ts_str), get_pty=True)

    client.close()

BTW: Executing the commands in PuTTY yields the desired output. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this issue? Thanks for your help!

Martin Prikryl
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This is basically this question:
Execute multiple commands in Paramiko so that commands are affected by their predecessors.

The only difference, is that you are on Windows, where set includes even training spaces to the value of the variable. So make sure there are no spaces between the password and the &&:

SET PGPASSWORD=secret_pw&&pw_dump
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