| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Brian Avis <brian(dot)avis(at)searhc(dot)org> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Backups and restores. |
| Date: | 2003-06-10 15:08:10 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0306100907300.13190-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Brian Avis wrote:
>
> I am upgrading my workstation to 7.3.3. I have some database backups
> that were created with this command.
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump $db | gzip > /usr/local/pgsql/backups/$filename
>
> Which generates this sort of file.
>
> pgdump_2003-6-5-csp.gz
> When I try to use pg_restore from 7.3.3 to restore that file with this
> command.
> ./bin/pg_restore -d csp pgdump_2003-6-5-csp
> Or even this one.
> ./bin/pg_restore -d csp pgdump_2003-6-5-csp.gz
>
> I get this error.
>
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
Are you un gzipping the file before feeding it to pg_restore?
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