Question
How to download a database from Managed Database Cluster?
- Posted on July 10, 2019
- Ubuntu 18.04DatabasesDigitalOcean
Asked by Motash
How to download a database from Managed Database Cluster (PostgreSQL)?
And
How to upload existing database to Managed Database Cluster (PostgreSQL)?
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Hi there @Motash,
You should be able to achieve both of these by using the
pg_dumpandpg_restorecommand-line tools.A command similar to the following should allow you to dump all the data from your remote PostgreSQL database to a single dump file:
You can restore a dump file to the default database and user by running a command similar to this:
We cover both importing and exporting databases more detail in our product documentation for our managed databases (PostgreSQL):
Hope that helps! - Matt.
Thank you. For pg_dump I had to also add: -p my_port_number (in my case 25060).