On 08/08/11 1:01 AM, Siva Palanisamy wrote:
Hi All,
I am also a newbie here! I need to backup a database and restore it
into the target machine where the database may already present or
might not. If it exists, I want the "restore" command to overwrite,
otherwise, just create a new one.
I tried using the commands:
(1) BACKUP: pg_dump -h localhost -U username db > dump_file.out;
RESTORE: pg_dump -h localhost -U username db < dump_file.out;
(2) BACKUP:
pg_dump -h localhost -U username -Ft db > dump_file.tar;
RESTORE:
pg_restore -h localhost -U username -d db dump_file.tar;
"Backup" worked perfect in the above 2 scenarios whereas "restore"
didn't yield the exact results. For testing it, I took the back-up and
intentionally deleted few records in a table. I then restored the
database in the same machine where the database exists. I expected the
deleted records to come back as I was restoring the one which has the
complete data. It didn't yield proper results. And I wonder why..
I believe I might be doing something marginally wrong. I would
appreciate if any geek over here to guide me the "restore" command
properly.
specify -c on the pg_restore, and it will drop the database objects and
recreate them
pg_dump -Fc -h localhost -U user -f dumpfile.pg dbname
pg_restore -c -h localhost -U user -d dbname dumpfile.pg
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