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+# run this against the old database you are dumping from
+# after you execute shell in db run this script
+
+DB_NAME="pals-production-hyku"  # Replace with your database name
+DB_USER="postgres"              # Replace with your database username
+DUMP_DIR="/tmp/postgres"        # Replace with your desired directory to store dump files
+
+# Create dump directory if it doesn't exist
+mkdir -p $DUMP_DIR
+
+# Get the list of schemas excluding system schemas
+SCHEMAS=$(psql -U $DB_USER -d $DB_NAME -t -c "SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata WHERE schema_name NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema', 'pg_toast', 'public');")
+
+# Loop through each schema and dump it
+for SCHEMA in $SCHEMAS; do
+    # Remove leading/trailing whitespace from schema name
+    SCHEMA=$(echo $SCHEMA | xargs)
+
+    # Output message
+    echo "Dumping schema: $SCHEMA"
+
+    # Dump the schema
+    pg_dump -U $DB_USER -d $DB_NAME -n $SCHEMA -F c -f "$DUMP_DIR/${SCHEMA}.dump"
+
+    # Check if the dump was successful
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "Successfully dumped schema: $SCHEMA"
+    else
+        echo "Failed to dump schema: $SCHEMA" >&2
+    fi
+done