Powershell command to restore a backup of the sockeye db locally here for development / testing & "C:/data/code/postgres_14/bin/pg_restore" -U postgres -c -d sockeye "C:\temp\db-20230413160012664.backup" NOTE: you may need to drop and create db outside of sockeye first if schema was changed locally from the backups copy schema, in practice should always start with a fresh db restored *then* make schema changes while coding to save a hassle. there's an info case for this if get stuck on it. -- DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS sockeye; CREATE DATABASE sockeye WITH TEMPLATE = template0 OWNER = postgres ENCODING = 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE = 'English_United States.1252' LC_CTYPE = 'English_United States.1252' TABLESPACE = pg_default CONNECTION LIMIT = -1 IS_TEMPLATE = False;