Postgres restore database from backup file

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This is done by first running rsync while the database server is running, then shutting down the database server just long enough to do a second rsync. The second rsync will be much quicker than the first, because it has relatively little data to transfer, and the end result will be consistent because the server was down. This method allows a file system backup to be performed with minimal downtime. Note that a file system backup will typically be larger than an SQL dump. However, taking a file system backup might be faster.

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To perform the database restore in PostgreSQL, we have to terminate all active connections for the database to be restoring. There are two ways to perform data restore in the PostgreSQL as follows:. We can use the following command to restore the particular database in PostgreSQL as defined below.

If we want to restore the database in the PostgreSQL, which is similar to the backed up database, then we can use the following command:. Consider the following screenshot, which is used to create a database in the PostgreSQL by using pgAdmin Consider the following screenshot, which shows the list of the database in the PostgreSQL by using pgAdmin Step1: Consider the following screenshot, which shows the context menu items available on the database in pgAdmin Step 3: Consider the following screenshot, which shows on successful creation of the job to restore the database in pgAdmin