Hi, I urgently need a way to simply backup the database's data on win32 (e.g. the 'data' directory). As discussed earlier I can't use dump/dumpall since my data needs persistent tableoids which, however, are not the same after a restore. AFAIK stopping the server, zipping data dir, and restarting the server creates a zip file which is not easily portable to other computers due to some ntfs file system permission problems. Does anyone have another idea how to backup (besides disk images)? Thank You Felix ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match