Re: backup

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:45:35PM -0800, Jimmy P Mani wrote:

> i have a backup of pgsql in .tar format
> how can i make the database unzipped from that

Determine how the tarball was created and use the appropriate restore
method.  See the "Backup and Restore" chapter in the PostgreSQL
documentation for details.

If the tarball contains toc.dat, other .dat files, and restore.sql,
then the backup was created with pg_dump and you can use pg_restore
to restore it.  See the documentation for pg_restore.

If the tarball contains files like pgsql/base/25819/17187 then it's
a file system level backup and you can restore it as you would any
other directory structure.  Read carefully the "File system level
backup" section of the documentation before doing anything.  Make
sure the postmaster is shut down when you do the restore.

If you need more information then please be more specific about
what concerns or problems you're having.

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/