On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Steven Marshall <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Chris Travers
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Steven Marshall <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am in the process of moving Ledgersmb 1.3.11 to another server. On my
>>> old server using admin.pl I have backed up my database as well as
>>> roles. How should I restore both database and roles on my new server?
>>> Using pg_restore?
>>>
>>> Use psql to restore the roles and pg_restore to restore the database.
>>
>> Typically this will be something like:
>>
>>
>> psql -U postgres -f my_roles_file
>> pg_restore -U postgres -C my_backup_file
>>
>> Note that this assumes that your database does not exist on the new
>> server. You should drop it before.
>>
>> The roles backup only backs up some cluster-wide globals, like roles.
>> The database it is restored to doesn't matter.
>>
>> The second creates the database named in the backup, and restores the
>> backup to the database it just created. This is of course not the only
>> thing you can do with your backup. See the pg_restore man page for many
>> more details.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Chris Travers
>>
>
> I restored the roles OK, but getting an error when trying to restore my
> database. I tried two different commands but get the same offset error.
> See below.
>
> postgres@georgefoster:~> pg_restore -C
> backup_StallusBoutique_Test_2012-02-22.bak
> pg_restore: [archiver] unexpected data offset flag 0
>
> postgres@georgefoster:~> pg_restore -C -d postgres
> backup_StallusBoutique_Test_2012-02-22.bak
> pg_restore: [archiver] unexpected data offset flag 0
>
>
Are the encodings different in the databases? Different PostgreSQL
versions? Anything else different?
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Steven Marshall
>
>
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