Thanks Richard. Backup as compressed worked.
Richard Huxton wrote:
> Richard Sydney-Smith wrote:
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>> ? In pgAdminIII linked to 8.0.4 server did a backup of all databased.
>> Chose "plain" and saved to disk.
>> uninstalled 8.0.4
>> installed 8.1.0
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>> create database in pgAdminIII v1.4
>> restore
>> ---- reports as not a valid archive.
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>> Obviously this is not what I expect.
>> Some older backups from a 7.4.? server on a Redhat machine will restore.
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> I'd guess it's expecting the "custom" archive format which lets you
> pick and choose what to restore. Someone more knowledgable will pop up
> and say for certain shortly.
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> You should be able to feed a "plain" backup to psql or to pg_restore
> though.
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> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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