Re: Restore xxxxx.backup database

adccs wrote:
> Help needed to restore a backup database!
>
> 1. Postgres service was started. When I run a restore command for the
> backup stored in /tmp (backed from another server working on this
> database and sent to meby email by another user). I created a database
> by the same name "royapuram" by using createdb in template1 and then ran
> the following command:
>
> [root(at)adccs ~]# /usr/bin/pg_restore -a /tmp/royapuram.backup
> ERROR: pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.10) in file header

Do the versions for the two installations of PostgreSQL match? (Hint - I
think the answer will be "no").

> 2. Alternatively I used (after creating "royapuram" database
> [root(at)adccs ~]# su - postgres
> -bash-3.00$ psql royapuram < /tmp/royapuram.backup;
> RESULT
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "
" at character 1
> and the whole terminal churns up junk characters and stops!

You can only do this with a text dump. The file you have is probably in
the "compressed" format.

Your user probably has a more recent version of PostgreSQL than you do,
so pg_restore can't understand the format of the backup file.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd