pg_restore not working corrupt tar header found
Trying to migrate from heroku postgres over to railway. The guide (https://blog.railway.app/p/postgre-backup) recommends using pg_dump and pg_restore. Once I had my
latest.dump file from heroku I tried importing with pg_restore. It fails with pg_restore: error: corrupt tar header found in PGDMP (expected 0, computed 19329) file position 512
Found this StackOverflow answer to a similar problem. It recommended making sure pg_dump and pg_restore have the same version. Upgraded my local pg installation to 14.5 (the version heroku is running) but the error remains.
Any help appreciated.Railway Blog
How to Backup and Restore Your Postgres Database
In this post, we will go over the process of backing up and restoring your Postgres database hosted on Railway.
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got it from heroku with
heroku pg:backups:downloadUnknown User•2y ago
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Any chance y'all can run
pg_dump on the heroku db?
Ah, looks like that's what Heroku runs internally.
Could you share the pg_restore command you ran?Unknown User•2y ago
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Could you try the command Heroku runs when they restore?
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb latest.dump
Seems like they run a pg_dump with the custom format option.Great success! Important to note I had specify
-F t. pg_dump successfully connected and got the dbUnknown User•2y ago
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Try following the intructions here https://blog.railway.app/p/postgre-backup and connecting pg_dump directly to heroku
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How to Backup and Restore Your Postgres Database
In this post, we will go over the process of backing up and restoring your Postgres database hosted on Railway.
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Probably using the connection URL.
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Not in this case as you're manually pasting the values.
railway run is used when you need to inject the environment variable values.Unknown User•2y ago
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Yes.
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using arguments directly. I didn't try with the url
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It's a 2 step process. Seems heroku uses their own format. First pg_dump then pg_restore
pg_dump -h HOST -d $DATABASE -U $USER -p $PORT -W -F t > latest.dump then type the password when prompted. The DATABASE_URL format is postgres://$USER:$PASSWORD@$HOST:$PORT/$DATABASE. Run pg_dump with the heroku credentialsUnknown User•2y ago
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Then
pg_restore -U $USER -h $HOST -p $PORT -W -F t -d $DATABASE latest.dump with the railway credentials.
fp, it'd would be cool to update the heroku migration article with the fact that heroku uses a weird dump format. Lots of people moving over latelyAgreed.
cc @Angelo if you want to take this or I can do it when I wake up! 😄
I can put it in my to-dos for today!
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Would you mind making a new thread in #✋｜help - bumping an old thread makes it hard for us to track
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Making an exception for you 🙂
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