2
votes
2answers
501 views

media family on device is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family

I am trying to restore a .BAK in SQL server but get the following error: Msg 3241, Level 16, State 7, Line 1 The media family on device 'c:\glyn\JA.bak' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot ...
2
votes
1answer
189 views

Restore InnoDB tables / database using only data files

I have MySQL Server 5.1.51 installed on Windows Server 2003 as Operating System and using InnoDB as database engine. I have run DROP DATABASE dbName statement by mistake. I have no backup of that ...
1
vote
1answer
256 views

SQL Server: Simple database restore with overwrite

What I'm trying to do is backup one of our production databases and restore them as our dev database (overwriting what's been there). That's how I back up: backup database [authfx] to disk = ...
2
votes
1answer
298 views

Ensure correct username when using pg_restore

I have just installed postgres 9.1.6 on a local Ubuntu server. Now I'm trying to restore a database dump from a database on Heroku. The local database is setup like this: sudo -u postgres psql -c ...
1
vote
1answer
923 views

disable constraints before using pg_restore.exe

When I try to execute pg_restore.exe of a dump file from a database, it throws dozens of errors, all the same: ERROR: insert or update on table "someTable" violates foreign key constraint ...
0
votes
1answer
192 views

Drop and restore PostgresSQL database without losing settings

This seems like a simple, easy question, but I'm very new to PostgreSQL administration and I'm not sure of the best way to do things. I have a PostgreSQL (9.1) database that somehow got corrupted ...