On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Martin Moore <martin.mo...@avbrief.com> wrote:
> Same server. I tried a few times. > > I didn’t move the db separately, but did a ‘dd’ to copy the disk to an > imagefile which was converted and loaded into VMWare. > > I ‘believed’ that this should keep the low level disk structure the same, > but if this has corrupted the files I can drop, dump and restore, in which > case how do I ‘drop’ the DB without postgres running? > > Ta, > > Martin. > Was the server you were backing up shut down or in backup mode when you did the 'dd' copy? -- Mike Nolan
