"Paul Skinner" <skin@skin.dhs.org> writes:
> How should one go about backing up large objects from a DB as pg_dump only
> handles the internal data and structures?
There is a pg_dumplo utility in contrib/ in current sources. I don't
think it existed in 7.0.*, but you could probably grab the current
snapshot and compile up pg_dumplo against your 7.0.* installation.
(Disclaimer: I haven't tried it personally, don't know if it works.)
> Do I just copy the files? If the worst does happen, I can restore from the
> pg_dump file and copy all the xinv and invx files back?
That will not work...
regards, tom lane
