database-backups

What does the backup window duration setting mean when configuring an Amazon RDS instance? Ratan Sharma If you are using automated backup for a DB instance, by enabling backups. The Backup Window time is the time in which the instance’s back up will be created. Start time : This means the time of the day you configure the backup to take place. Duration : This is the time window where back up will be taken - Default is 30 minutes. For details : http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/amazon-rds-maintenance-windows-shortened.html from Working With Backups documentaion Below is the answer for "what if

Earlier today, I was trying to restore my PostgreSQL (8.1.22) database from production using pgAdmin III. However, after the restoration procedure finished, it started throwing errors like: WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 4 Also, upon investigation I found that out of all the tables 3 tables hadn't been restored (contained 0 rows). When I checked the log, I found the follwoing error near the 3 tables: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 5390; 0 442375 TABLE DATA tablename postgres pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8":

SQL Server keeps telling me a database is in use when I try to drop it or restore it, but when I run this metadata query: select * from sys.sysprocesses where dbid in (select database_id from sys.databases where name = 'NameOfDb') It returns nothing. Sometimes it will return 1 process which is a CHECKPOINT_QUEUE waittype. If I try to kill that process, it won't let me (cannot kill a non-user process). Anyone have any idea what's wrong? There could be lots of things blocking your database. For example, if you have a query window opened on that database, it would be locked by you. Not counting

I have a Django application that uses a Postgres database. I need to be able to backup and restore the db, both to ensure no data is lost and to be able to copy data from the production server to the development server during testing. There seem to be a few different ways to do this: Just interact with the db directly. So, for Postgres I might write a script using pg_dumpall and psql . Use the sqlclear / sqlall commands that come with Django. Use the dumpdata / loaddata commands that come with Django. So create new fixtures from the db you want to backup and then load them into the db you want

I did backup on database on different server and that has different role than I need, with this command: pg_dump -Fc db_name -f db_name.dump Then I copied backup to another server where I need to restore the database, but there is no such owner that was used for that database. Let say database has owner owner1 , but on different server I only have owner2 and I need to restore that database and change owner. What I did on another server when restoring: createdb -p 5433 -T template0 db_name pg_restore -p 5433 --role=owner2 -d db_name db_name.dump But when restore is run I get these errors: pg