Hi Steve, On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Steve Erickson <serick...@digitiliti.com>wrote:
> While prepping a second server today the /var/lib/postgres/ directory > got deleted. Yes, everything. We’re running on Ubuntu 10.4 and Postgres > 8.4. We immediately shutdown everything but now need to recover the > directory tree. No, the customer did not do any backups – the database was > just under 1 TB and they didn’t want to take the time. > > > > We’re looking into using extundelete or ext4magic to try to recover the > files and, if successful, are there any further steps we need to take to > bring up the database again? > > > > If we’re unsuccessful, we do have a filesystem backup from several months > ago that we can apply and then go through the tedium of trying to fill in > the missing blanks for those months. Since there are so many rows, is > there a tool or procedure we can use to verify the integrity of the data > once Postgres is back up and running? > > > > I don’t expect any miracles, but want to be sure there isn’t less > intensive alternative out there. > > > > Thanks, > > > Steve Erickson > I would like to forward this question to pgsql-general mailing list, since it's a postgresql related question. Regards, Dinesh
