I downloaded a .pgbackup file but couldn't find information on how to load it into a local db.
The forum I grabbed it from is not very responsive too.
Thank you in advance!
Use pg_restore as per the docs
You can use PgAdmin-III to restore a backup too, there's a "Restore" option in the menus. You have to select a database to restore into in order for this option to be enabled, or you can select the "postgres" database and check the option to create a new database for the restored DB in the restore options dialog.
It's also possible that you're dealing with an ordinary SQL dump. If so, you can load it with the command-line psql tool. There is no way I know of to restore an SQL dump via PgAdmin-III. Details of restoring backups with psql are discussed in the documentation.
I wrote a bit of a rant about the usability of backup and restore in PgAdmin-III a while ago.
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Let I first state that I am not a DBA-guy but I do have a question regarding restoring remote databases using PG Admin.
I have this PG Admin tool (v4.27) running in a Docker container and I use this portal to maintain two separate Postgress databases, both running in a Docker container as well. I installed PG Agent in both database containers and run scheduled daily backup's, defined via PG Admin and stored in the container of each corresponding databases. So far so good.
Now I want to restore one of these databases by using the latest daily backup file (*.sql), but the Restore Dialog of PG Admin only looks for files stored locally (the PG Admin container)?
Whatever I tried or searched for on the internet, to me it seems not possible to show a list of remote backup files in PG Admin or run manually a remote SQL file. Is this even possible in PG Admin? Running psql in the query editor is not possible (duh ...) and due to not finding the remote SQL-restore file I have no clue how to run this code within PG Admin on the remote corresponding database container.
The one and only solution so far I can think of, is scheduling a restore which has no calendar and should be triggered manually when needed, but it's not the prettiest solution.
Do I miss something or did I overlook the right documentation or have I created a silly, unmaintainable solution?
Thanks in advance for thinking along and kind regards,
Aad Dijksman
You cannot restore a plain format dump (an SQL script) with pgAdmin. You will have to use psql, the command line client.
COPY statements and data are mixed in such a dump, and that would make pgAdmin choke.
The solution by #Laurenz Albe points out that it is best to use the command line psql here, and that would be my first go-to.
However, if for whatever reason you don't have access to the command line and are only able to connect to this database via pgadmin, there is another solution which you can find here:
Export and import table dump (.sql) using pgAdmin
I recommend looking at the solution by Tomas Greif.
I have a question about how to backup a specific Database using pgbackrest:
the problem is when I tried to restore a selected db using --include-db option of pgbackrest i got just the selected db and built-in databases(postgres, template0 and template1) restored, and when i tried to connect another db after the restore I got this error :
**FATAL: relation mapping file "base/24581/pg_filenode.map" contains invalid data
Previous connection kept**
is there any solution that allows the restore of the whole db with the selected one without losing the other databases ??
Thank you
I don't think this is possible according to the documentation of Include Database option:
Include Database Option (--db-include) Restore only specified
databases. This feature allows only selected databases to be restored.
Databases not specifically included will be restored as sparse, zeroed
files to save space but still allow PostgreSQL to perform recovery.
After recovery the databases that were not included will not be
accessible but can be removed with the drop database command. NOTE:
built-in databases (template0, template1, and postgres) are always
restored.
I know the function "pg_dump" for backup and restore.
But I never tried because so scared.
Question is simple. Can I use that function for graph data?
Or Is the other function supported for that? There's no information in their documentation.
You may refer the postgreSQL pg_dump document coz nothing different from doing bakcup on postgreSQL.
I referred the guide to create dump script with crontab and both dump and restore worked fine.
In my case, I used pg_dump for creating dump file and restore it with psql. You may choose pg_restore instead if necessary.
agens#karl ~] pg_dump --port=5432 --username=agens --file=agens.dump agens
agens#karl ~] psql --port=5432 --username=agens --dbname=agens2 -f agens.dump
However, I no longer use pg_dump for backup task due to the incremental bakcup requirement. So I googled available backup OSS for postgresql. Among the options I searched, pg_rman is currently what I am using.
It made me easier to build a scheduling script for archive backup every 6 hours, incremental backup every day and full backup every week and those jobs are working properly more than 2 months so far.
Restoring the data on other severs is tested successfully as well.
Hope this helpful for you.
I want sql script of postgres 9 database schema which is not on local server. I tried pg_dump command on sql editor of pgAdmin and its not working there. I m not sure where to run that command. Please assist me with the same....
Thanks..
pg_dump is a command line utility; it isn't SQL, so it won't work in pgAdmin or anywhere else that executes SQL.
pgAdmin however does have a facility to do what you want:
Right-click on the database you want to export
Select Backup from the pop-up menu
Chose "format" Plain
Chose "plain option" Only schema
You can also use pgAdmin tool to generate or take plain text Database Backup.
You can generate plain text backup for data or schema only.
I have shared few screen shots, please visit this blog for more details.
We have the "coverity" tool setup and are trying to find a way to backup the database to a file, it uses I believe PostgreSQL.
How can we do this, is it using its own independent installation of PostgreSQL?
Even better answer..
cov-admin-db backup c:/mybackupfile
When you installed Coverity Integrity Manager, it asked you if you want it to install and manage a PostgreSQL instance or if you want to connect to your own existing PostgreSQL instance that you then have to manage.
If you chose the former, then you would use the provided cov-admin-db command.
If you chose the latter then presumably you already do regular back-ups of your databases with *pg_dump*, you should do the same for the Coverity database.
Without knowing which of the two you chose, it's not clear which of the two answers already given is correct.
You can check which option you chose by looking in the file /config/system.properties - if the first line is "*embedded_db=true*" then use the cov-admin-db command which is documented in the manual as well as in its own --help option.
If it does use PostgreSQL, then there should be a pg_dump utility somewhere in the PostgreSQL installation.
Taking backups using pg_dump is very well explained in the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-dump.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgdump.html