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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:21:57 +0200
From: "Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" <ioguix@free.fr>
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To: Martin Povolny <martin.povolny@solnet.cz>
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Subject: Re: large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore
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Or even compress AND split it !
  pg_dump -Fc dbname | split -b 1G - dump_dbname

and restore:
  cat dump_dbname* | pg_restore -d dbname

or
  cat dump_dbname* | pg_restore | psql dbname

Le 26/10/2010 23:51, Samuel Stearns a écrit :
> You can also try piping the dump through gzip and then restoring using cat:
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> pg_dumpall | gzip > db.out-`date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H`.gz
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> cat db.out-`date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H`.gz | gunzip | psql template1
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> Sam
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> *From:* pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] *On Behalf Of *Martin Povolny
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:12 PM
> *To:* pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> *Subject:* [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore
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> Hallo, 
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> I have some quite grave problems with dumping and restoring large
> databases (>4GB of dump).
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> I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping: I
> was unable to make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message:
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> pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format
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> I got over this issue by using the 'custom' format.
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> Unfortunately later on I was only able to restore 3 of the 5 databases
> -- any of the 2 dumps that would get over 4GB in the 'tar' format would
> fail.
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> /var/tmp# ls -l dumps/
> 
> total 16294020
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  742611968 2010-10-16 20:36 archiv1.dump
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  317352448 2010-10-16 20:37 archiv2.dump
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1137477632 2010-10-16 20:41 archiv3.dump
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3712833536 2010- 10-16 20:57 archiv4.dump
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8735429632 2010-10-16 21:35 archiv5.dump
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1253325453 2010-10-16 22:59 bb.dump
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> archiv1-4 went OK, archiv5 -- the largest in 'tar' format -- failed and
> the 'bb.dump' which is in the 'custom' format, failed too.
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> I got these messages:
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> for the archiv5 in the 'tar' format: 
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> pg_restore: [tar archivář] nalezena poškozená tar hlavička v STEX
> (předpokládáno 100, vypočteno 34044) pozice souboru 7750193152
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> sorry, it's in my native locale, but is says "found a corrupted tar
> header in STEX (expected 100, calculated 34044) file position 7750193152
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> for the bb.dump in the 'custom' format:
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> pg_restore: [vlastní archivář] unexpected end of file
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> 'vlastní archiv ář' is again in my locale, it should be in English "own
> archiver"
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> Later I tried to utilize the -I and -i switches of pg_restore to restore
> data that are in the archive behing the table that was not restored. But
> got the same error message.
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> The dump was created on postgresql-8.3  8.3.3-1~bpo40+1 from debian
> backports. I was trying to restore on this version and later on using
> postgresql-8.4 8.4.5-1~bpo50+1 from debian backports, finally I tried
> 64bit version of postgresql-8.4 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.10. No change, still the
> same error messages.
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> I welcome any help and/or hints on this issue as I need to dump and
> restore several large databases.
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> --
> Mgr. Martin Povolný, soLNet, s.r.o.,
> +420777714458, martin.povolny@solnet.cz
> 

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