I have a very old postgres server that I am trying to move the data off of. It is running 7.1 and has been trouble free for 6 plus years. I am trying to move the data base off to a server running 8.1. I have managed to back up the data using PG_Dump using like this. " pg_dump -b -Fc -h stan.someplace.com -u phone >phone.data" But I have had no luck getting PG_Restore to restore the data. Any suggestions on what the command line should look like? We set this up as a test system and it ran so well no one wanted to take it down. I really want to migrate it before the PII 266 it is running on gives up the ghost :) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings