Re: Backup & Restore - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Backup & Restore
Date
Msg-id 20060927125705.GG27592@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Backup & Restore  (Felipe Giotto <felipe@metasoftware.com.br>)
List pgsql-novice
am  Wed, dem 27.09.2006, um  9:13:54 -0300 mailte Felipe Giotto folgendes:
> Hi!
>
> I know this is a extremely novice question :D, but I'm trying to use a
> simple command to backup an entire database to a file, and then restore
> the entire database from the file, overwriting all the previously data
> stored on the old database. I tried pg_dump and pg_restore (i can't

Perhaps you should use pg_dumpall for all databases, not only a specific
database.


> remember the parameters right now), but pg_restore always returns an
> error about primary key violations. Can anybody tell me two commands to

Which version? Prior versions of pg_dump may include errors.


> backup and restore my databases without these key violation problems?

Can you give us more information about:
- version
- parameters
- exact error message?


Andreas
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