From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Dennis C <dcswest(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | questions(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PG dump and restore |
Date: | 2010-06-25 15:56:46 |
Message-ID: | 1277481406.11389.1.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:28 -0700, Dennis C wrote:
> Greetings;
>
>
> As I've been doing for quite some time, backed up my database as
> such: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_dump -c -f ./Trading-Access
> -Z 5 Trading-Access
>
>
> But then when I tried restoring it my usual way as
> such: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_restore -d
> Trading-Access ./Trading-Access
> it causes the error: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear
> to be a valid archive
You don't use pg_restore for plain text dumps which is what you are
doing above. You use psql.
>
>
> So in trying: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/psql Trading-Access
> < ./Trading-Access
> it causes the error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x8b
It means the database you has characters in it that are not UTF8
compliant. You can use iconv to clean it up.
Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> Thanks,
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