just tar -zcvf 8.3.tar.gz /mnt/sdf/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/ since i found a way to mount the partition on /mnt/sdf.
first I installed postgres on a virtual machine and then I extracted the 8.3.tar.gz at /var/lib/postgresql . when i try to sh /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start it runs the command instantly but don't launch anything. Is there a procedure to recover postgres databases on this occasions?? Diogo Oliveira de Melo Ciência da Computação ICMC - USP São Carlos On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Diogo Melo <dmel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't boot the postgres server anymore. I just have access to the > files, > > like the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 path, for example. I use debian and > > postgresql-8.3 . > > > > I don't have any sql dump. How can I recover my databases with just the > > binary files there? > > > > I tried copy the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 to another a installation of > > postgresql-8.3 on another server, but without success. > > How did you copy them? What error(s) did you get? >
