Hello Adrian, Thank you for the reply.
I will definitely give it a try on Monday. I am trying to use pg_dump command to backup up each table in the database and restore them one by one using the "-t" option. It is going to be a painful process because 8.1 pg_dump does not have the "exclude" option like "-T" in 8.4. Some tables in my database are of 1G in size. I need to isolate them so as to keep the backup less than 2G in size. Thanks, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 04/15/2011 01:15 PM, Edison So wrote: > >> I have a DELL server running Windows server 2003 and Postgres 8.1. >> I used pg_dump to back up a database test: >> pg_dump -v -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -b -f >> "D:/db_dump/backup.bak" test >> The backup was showing the following error. >> . >> pg_dump: dumping contents of table history >> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected >> position -- ftell used >> >> pg_dump: dumping contents of table history_archive >> >> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected >> position -- ftell used >> >> pg_dump: dumping contents of table historymetadata >> >> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected >> position -- ftell used >> I was trying to do a Posgres 8.1.4 backup and restored it to Postgres >> 9.0 on a new Dell server running Windows server 2008. >> Any clue how to resolve it? >> > > My guess related to this: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-08/msg00373.php > > Try using the Postgres 9.0 version of pg_dump to take the dump of the 8.1 > server. > > Edison >> >> -- >> Edison >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@gmail.com > -- Edison
