Hello all Thank you very much for your responses! I realised that the restores were not working as the databases were not being...backed up!...oops! After I did the reinstallation of the OS I forgot to give permissions in postgresql for the user doing the backup in ubuntu! I have fixed this. I have also listened to all your advice and decided to do single dumps of each of the databases as well as a pg_dumpall of the globals. But still the issue remains how do you perfom a restore (not using the command line that I know how to do and works successfully now!), but via pgAdmin. As when I click on restore after selecting the file the okay button is still disabled....any ideas???? Thanks again! t. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Postgresql-Backups-tp24845786p24898427.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general