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Restore xxxxx.backup database
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| 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@adccs ~]# /usr/bin/pg_restore -a /tmp/royapuram.backup
ERROR: pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.10) in file header
2. Alternatively I used (after creating "royapuram" database
[root@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!
What do I do to restore!!
Regards
K. Rajaraman
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| Richard Huxton 2005-09-27, 7:23 am |
| 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:
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> [root@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@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.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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| Tom Lane 2005-09-27, 9:23 am |
| Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> adccs wrote:
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> 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.
Looking at the code, 1.10 corresponds to PG 8.0. A pg_restore version
older than 8.0 can't handle it because it won't know what to do with the
fields for tables' tablespaces.
regards, tom lane
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