Restore xxxxx.backup database

adccs wrote:

Help needed to restore a backup database!

1. Postgres service was started. When I run a restore command for the
backup stored in /tmp (backed from another server working on this
database and sent to meby email by another user). I created a database
by the same name "royapuram" by using createdb in template1 and then ran
the following command:

[root@adccs ~]# /usr/bin/pg_restore -a /tmp/royapuram.backup
ERROR: pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.10) in file header

Do the versions for the two installations of PostgreSQL match? (Hint - I
think the answer will be "no").

2. Alternatively I used (after creating "royapuram" database
[root@adccs ~]# su - postgres
-bash-3.00$ psql royapuram < /tmp/royapuram.backup;
RESULT
ERROR: syntax error at or near "
" at character 1
and the whole terminal churns up junk characters and stops!

You can only do this with a text dump. The file you have is probably in
the "compressed" format.

Your user probably has a more recent version of PostgreSQL than you do,
so pg_restore can't understand the format of the backup file.

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:

adccs wrote:

[root@adccs ~]# /usr/bin/pg_restore -a /tmp/royapuram.backup
ERROR: pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.10) in file header

Your user probably has a more recent version of PostgreSQL than you do,
so pg_restore can't understand the format of the backup file.

Looking at the code, 1.10 corresponds to PG 8.0. A pg_restore version
older than 8.0 can't handle it because it won't know what to do with the
fields for tables' tablespaces.

regards, tom lane