Backup & Restore Database in PostgreSQL

1) Backup data with pg_dump

pg_dump -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -b -v -f 
"/usr/local/backup/10.70.0.61.backup" old_db

To list all of the available options of pg_dump , please issue following command.

pg_dump -?

• -p, –port=PORT database server port number
• -i, –ignore-version proceed even when server version mismatches
• -h, –host=HOSTNAME database server host or socket directory
• -U, –username=NAME connect as specified database user
• -W, –password force password prompt (should happen automatically)
• -d, –dbname=NAME connect to database name
• -v, –verbose verbose mode
• -F, –format=c|t|p output file format (custom, tar, plain text)
• -c, –clean clean (drop) schema prior to create
• -b, –blobs include large objects in dump
• -v, –verbose verbose mode
• -f, –file=FILENAME output file name

2) Restore data with pg_restore

pg_restore -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -d old_db -v 
"/usr/local/backup/10.70.0.61.backup"

To list all of the available options of pg_restore , please issue following command.

pg_restore -?

• -p, –port=PORT database server port number
• -i, –ignore-version proceed even when server version mismatches
• -h, –host=HOSTNAME database server host or socket directory
• -U, –username=NAME connect as specified database user
• -W, –password force password prompt (should happen automatically)
• -d, –dbname=NAME connect to database name
• -v, –verbose verbose mode

DUMP Single Table

pg_dump.exe --host localhost --port 5432 --username "postgres" --no-password  --format plain --section pre-data --section data --section post-data --encoding UTF8 --inserts --column-inserts --verbose --file "C:\Users\NIC\Desktop\office.sql" --table "public.c_offices" "secure20160804"