The Defensics PostgreSQL database can be backed up to a
database dump file and restored by using the following launcher commands. See
–-help in sub-commands to see more info. If something goes wrong in
these operations, you can add –-verbose to see more details. These
commands start and stop PSQL automatically if it's not already running.
Backing Up Database
Back up the database with the following command in Windows:
cmd /c .\Defensics.exe -J-splash:none -console database backup <arguments>
Back up the database with the following command in Linux:
./Defensics -J-splash:none -console database backup <arguments>where target-file is optional, defaults to defensics-psql-backup.dump.
Restoring Database
Restore the database with the following command in Windows:
cmd /c .\Defensics.exe -J-splash:none -console database restore <arguments>Restore the database with the following command in Linux:
./Defensics -J-splash:none -console database restore <arguments>Note that this will WIPE the previous database contents and the command asks you to
confirm this. Restore can be parallelized by supplying the
-j<job-count> argument.