Re: Moving pgadmin4.db to a new server

Hi Jan,

How did you copy the .db file ?
Did you copy first and then started pgAdmin or started first and then
copied.
When pgAdmin4 starts, it checks the schema version of .db file and applies
the migrations till the current version.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 11:40 Avin Kavish <avinkavish(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> https://sqlitebrowser.org/ should allow you to open the db files and
> inspect the schema
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:28 AM Jan Birk <jan(dot)g(dot)birk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Murtuza,
>>
>> Thanks. The server definitions seems to be ok only by moving the db files.
>> However we can't really be sure.
>>
>> Is there - in the docs - a schema description for each version ?
>>
>> We have +100 users and we will not be popular if we can't migrate to
>> another
>> server but will have have to ask the users to start over with settings and
>> passwords.
>>
>> We might be able to write a tool to do this if we can find the docs.
>> Other users
>> might find this useful to when they have to change servers.
>>
>> Best and thanks again for the product.
>>
>> /Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> søn, 20 10 2019 kl. 10:43 +0530, skrev Murtuza Zabuawala:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Yes it is throwing error due to password salt, It would be better if you
>> > follow steps from
>> > https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.14/import_export_servers.html
>> for
>> > migration.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please note that as of now there is no way of exporting pgAdmin4
>> settings.
>> >
>> >
>> > -- Murtuza
>> >
>> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 21:55 Jan Birk, <jan(dot)g(dot)birk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > We are running pgadmin4 v 3.4 and are migration to a new server and a
>> new
>> > > version 4.12..
>> > >
>> > > We have copied the old pgadmin4.db to the new server in order to keep
>> the
>> > > users settings and passwords. Settings is working but not the
>> passwords. We
>> > > get an
>> > >
>> > > "Failed to decrypt the saved password. Error: 'utf-8' codec can't
>> decode
>> > > byte 0x92 in position 0: invalid start byte"
>> > >
>> > > Maybe this is related to some salt in the passwords but I am not sure.
>> > >
>> > > How should we correctly migrate from one server to another ?
>> > >
>> > > Best and thanks for a very good application. It's just getting better
>> and
>> > > better.
>> > >
>> > > /Jan
>> > >
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