hi, I'm trying to make some hardware upgrades (increasing disk capacity) to the machine where the database server is running. So, I've backed up all the existing databases using the following command: pg_dump -f <location_for_dump> -Fc -v <dbname> I want to restore these databases on a different machine. I've got the postmaster installed and running (version same as on old one). To restore the databases i tried the following command: pg_restore -v -d <dbname> <dump_location> to which i got the following error: pg_restore: connecting to database for restore pg_restore: [archiver (db)] connection to database "abc" failed: FATAL: datab ase "abc" does not exist pg_restore: *** aborted because of error Realizing my mistake i used the following command: pg_restore -v -C -d template1 <dump_location> to which i got the following error: pg_restore: connecting to database for restore pg_restore: creating DATABASE abc pg_restore: [archiver] could not set session user to "abc": ERROR: user "abc" does not exist pg_restore: *** aborted because of error So, seeing this i first made the user, using 'createuser' and then created a database using 'createdb'. Now, since i have many users do i have to everytime createuser and createdb for each user and database. Is there any way of copying/dumping/restoring the user and group information and permissions from the old machine to the new one so that i do not have to do a createuser everytime?? Could somebody help me out with this please. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Pritesh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org