ofuerst@tsak.net writes:
> As I wrote in my initial posting: source and target encoding is UNICODE. I can
> restore mentioned backups without a problem on a Windows host. And every backup
> I take is not restore-able on it's original host...
Indeed, 8.0.8 is stricter about encoding than prior versions, and 0xA3
is *not* a valid UTF8 character. Perhaps your data is really Latin1 or
some such?
regards, tom lane