-**Tar**: Backup and restore tasks use `tar` under the hood to create and extract
archives. Ensure you have version 1.30 or above of `tar` available in your
system. To check the version, run:
```shell
tar--version
```
## Backup timestamp
NOTE: **Note:**
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GitLab that you created it on, for example CE 9.1.0.
If your backup is a different version than the current installation, you will
need to [downgrade your GitLab installation](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html#downgrading)
need to [downgrade your GitLab installation](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/README.html#downgrade)
before restoring the backup.
### Restore prerequisites
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The Rake task runs this as the `gitlab` user which does not have the superuser access to the database. When restore is initiated it will also run as `gitlab` user but it will also try to alter the objects it does not have access to.
Those objects have no influence on the database backup/restore but they give this annoying warning.
For more information see similar questions on PostgreSQL issue tracker[here](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/201110220712.30886.adrian.klaver@gmail.com) and [here](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2039.1177339749@sss.pgh.pa.us) as well as [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4368789/error-must-be-owner-of-language-plpgsql).
For more information see similar questions on PostgreSQL issue tracker[here](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/201110220712.30886.adrian.klaver@gmail.com) and [here](https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2039.1177339749@sss.pgh.pa.us) as well as [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4368789/error-must-be-owner-of-language-plpgsql).
