On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
Not sure about the encodings or how to check. As for the versions, I made
my backup from a PostgreSQL server version 9.1.1-3.1.4 and trying to
restore to server version 9.0.3-1.6.1
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Best Regards,
Steven Marshall
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