Hi Chris, >SELECT pg_dump -U postgres -d pricemaster6 > -f \\CENTOS2\ge... I'm looking here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/app-pgdump.html And I'm guessing that " > -f " is a redundancy, and that you could remove either one and it would mean the same thing. I think that's the 'near -' it's referring to. Kelly