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Backup/restore postgres in docker container
Backup:
docker exec -t -u postgres your-db-container pg_dumpall -c > dump_`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql
Restore:
cat your_dump.sql | docker exec -i your-db-container psql -Upostgres
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ghost commented Dec 15, 2023

To restore your dump file with specified user and database_name
cat your_dump.sql | docker exec -i {docker-postgres-container} psql -U {user} -d {database_name}

This is pretty helpful

thanks

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cat your_dump.sql | docker exec -i {docker-postgres-container} psql -U {user} -d {database_name} try this but got Internal server error while access the query page

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