On 06/10/2008 09:07, Alain Roger wrote:

> i backup my database "sewe" using a standard process.
> 1. it backups only database and not roles :-( roles are backuped separately.
> 2. backup is a tar file
> 3. backup command is : pg_dump -v -o -U myuser -ci -Ft -f sewe.tar sewe
> 
> Question
> how can i restore it now ?
> could something like that could work on Windows XP ?
> createdb sewe
> gunzip -c sewe.tar | psql sewe

AAIU, the custom dump formats are less portable than the plain-text
format, so you might be better off using that. In that case, you need to
unzip the file first and then restore it using psql.

Ray.

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