2017-03-10 5:11 GMT+00:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
pg_restore db.bckup > out.sql
pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
On 03/09/2017 09:09 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 03/09/2017 03:55 AM, mac pack wrote:
Hi.
My PostgreSQL server was affect by a Ransomware virus. I'm trying to
restore the database from a dump file made by pg_dump in custom format
(-F c option), but the dump file seems to be damaged in the first's 1000
lines.
Opening the file with vi shows ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ followed by part of
the databse schema and the a lote of lines with binary characters that i
think is the table's data.
The custom format is a binary format so non text characters would be
expected.
Did you try to restore using the file, before doing the below?
yes
If there was an error when you did that and if so what was it?
Should be:
Was there an error when you did that and if so what was it?
pg_restore db.bckup > out.sql
pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
Opening the original damaged file in vi with :%!xxd it show's:
0003ff80: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ff90: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffa0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffb0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffc0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffd0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffe0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003fff0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00040000: 3331 3820 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 202d 318 -
00040010: 272c 206e 756c 6c29 3b0d 0a69 6e73 6572 ', null);..inser
00040020: 7420 696e 746f 206d 6f72 6164 6173 6374 t into moradasct
00040030: 7428 6964 5f64 6973 7463 6f6e 632c 206c t(id_distconc, l
00040040: 6f63 616c 6964 6164 652c 2061 7272 7561 ocalidade, arrua
00040050: 6d65 6e74 6f2c 2074 726f 636f 2c20 6c69 mento, troco, li
00040060: 6d5f 696e 6665 7269 6f72 5f70 6f72 7461 m_inferior_porta
00040070: 2c20 636c 6965 6e74 652c 2063 6f64 6967 , cliente, codig
00040080: 6f5f 706f 7374 616c 2c20 6c69 6d5f 7375 o_postal, lim_su
00040090: 7065 7269 6f72 2920 7661 6c75 6573 2028 perior) values (
0003ff80: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ff90: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffa0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffb0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffc0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffd0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003ffe0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0003fff0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
00040000: 3331 3820 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 202d 318 -
00040010: 272c 206e 756c 6c29 3b0d 0a69 6e73 6572 ', null);..inser
00040020: 7420 696e 746f 206d 6f72 6164 6173 6374 t into moradasct
00040030: 7428 6964 5f64 6973 7463 6f6e 632c 206c t(id_distconc, l
00040040: 6f63 616c 6964 6164 652c 2061 7272 7561 ocalidade, arrua
00040050: 6d65 6e74 6f2c 2074 726f 636f 2c20 6c69 mento, troco, li
00040060: 6d5f 696e 6665 7269 6f72 5f70 6f72 7461 m_inferior_porta
00040070: 2c20 636c 6965 6e74 652c 2063 6f64 6967 , cliente, codig
00040080: 6f5f 706f 7374 616c 2c20 6c69 6d5f 7375 o_postal, lim_su
00040090: 7065 7269 6f72 2920 7661 6c75 6573 2028 perior) values (
I tried to replace those first lines with lines from other dev database
and i can run pg_restore but at some point throws error.
pg_restore db.backup > out.sql
pg_restore: [custom archiver] unrecognized data block type (0) while
searching archive
The follow commands works fine:
pg_restore -s db.backup > out.sql
pg_restore -l db.backup
Do you think it's possible to recover the dump file, is there any method
or tool to recover dump files?
Thanks.
Mário
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
