You just need to copy this script anywhere on the server where you have the database that you want to use as a template. Then edit the script and change the database name 'ledger28' to your database name and run the script from command line like this: perl generate_chart_file.pl It will create the required chart file in the current folder which you can then move into your sql-ledger/sql folder. This script creates INSERT statements for the 3 tables chart, curr, defaults, but you can add or remove tables from this list as needed by editing the script. And the current output file is set in "$output_file = 'RMADE_DEU_Basiskontenplan-chart.sql';", which you can also adapt according to your own needs. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my $db_name = 'ledger28'; my $db_host = 'localhost'; my $db_user = 'sql-ledger'; my $db_pass = ''; my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:Pg:dbname=$db_name;host=$db_host", $db_user, $db_pass, { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0, } ); my $output_file = 'RMADE_DEU_Basiskontenplan-chart.sql'; open( my $output_fh, '>', $output_file ) or die "Could not open $output_file: $!"; my @tables = ( 'chart', 'curr', 'defaults' ); foreach my $table (@tables) { my $stmt = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM $table"); $stmt->execute(); my @columns; for my $col_info ( @{ $stmt->{NAME_lc} } ) { push @columns, $col_info unless $col_info eq 'id'; } while ( my $row = $stmt->fetchrow_hashref() ) { my @values = map { defined $row->{$_} ? "'$row->{$_}'" : 'NULL' } @columns; my $columns_str = join( ', ', @columns ); my $values_str = join( ', ', @values ); my $insert_sql = "INSERT INTO $table ($columns_str) VALUES ($values_str);"; print $output_fh "$insert_sql\n"; } } close $output_fh; $dbh->disconnect; print "SQL statements generated and saved to $output_file\n";