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Native client not found when backing up or restoring Postgres 11 database

See original GitHub issue

System information:

Windows 10 Home 1909 64bit
DBeaver version 6.3.4.202002011957

Connection specification:

PostgreSQL 11 (on Heroku)
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver

Describe the problem you’re observing:

When trying to make a backup of a Postgres 11 database, or restoring one, I get the following error:

Task execution failed

Reason:
Native client home 'postgresql-x64-11' not found

Steps to reproduce, if exist:

Right click on a database -> tools -> backup Select all views Click start

Right click on a database -> tools -> restore Select backup file Click start

Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the logs

2020-02-05 18:33:54.614 - org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.exec.DBCException: Native client home 'postgresql-x64-11' not found
	at org.jkiss.dbeaver.tasks.nativetool.AbstractNativeToolHandler.validateClientHome(AbstractNativeToolHandler.java:104)
	at org.jkiss.dbeaver.tasks.nativetool.AbstractNativeToolHandler.doExecute(AbstractNativeToolHandler.java:229)
	at org.jkiss.dbeaver.tasks.nativetool.AbstractNativeToolHandler.lambda$0(AbstractNativeToolHandler.java:52)
	at org.jkiss.dbeaver.runtime.RunnableContextDelegate.lambda$0(RunnableContextDelegate.java:39)
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)

Partial workaround

Changing the client in the backup process to PostgreSQL Binaries as suggested here https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/issues/4106#issuecomment-416759677 seems to resolve the backing up part of the problem. However, when restoring from a backup created in this way and using PostgreSQL Binaries for the client, I get an error saying [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:9
Comments:7

Top GitHub Comments

144reactions

Tri125commented, Feb 11, 2020

If you click “Client…”

and then select the empty value in the dropdown:

you can then restore/backup.

34reactions

jyupanquilcommented, Apr 19, 2020

I solved this by adding a new home directory. At first followed the steps @Tri125 recommended, selecting browse instead of the blank option, then clicked the Add Home button and selected the bin directory (C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12\bin in my case) then selected that created home as the client to do the backup and it worked fine. Note: the PostgreSQL 12 home directory was pointing to *C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12*

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