On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> > Every file from /var/lib/pgsql/ before I started this is on the
> > weekly backup tape from last Friday night. If need be I can restore
> > from that and start over.
>
> Well, no worries then. I'm sure you can understand that for many people
> - way TOO many people - that is not the case, so it's well worth
> stressing the point.
If the database was in use when _that_ backup was taken, it may also not be
usable.
You can't just backup a live database from the filesystem level and expect
it to work ...
--
Alan