# Restore DB from an old Djigzo installation fails partially

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**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/restore-db-from-an-old-djigzo-installation-fails-partially/579 "2017-11-07T08:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stefan\_Gunther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Stefan\_Gunther](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/Stefan_Gunther)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/restore-db-from-an-old-djigzo-installation-fails-partially/579/1 "2017-11-07T08:06:56Z")

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> \>  
> \> A restore of the database produced a number of error messages which seemed to be related to the postgresql db itself.
> 
> What error messages are produced?

the output ran too fast and I was not able to scroll up.

> Is the SQL dump in binary format or text format? If in binary format it  
> could be that the binary format is not compatible with a newer  
> PostgreSQL release. One option in that case would be to import the dump  
> into an older version of PostgreSQL and then dump in text format.

it is in text format.

I guess I will try to grab the single INSERT statements and see what happens.

Kind regards,

Stefan