Re: Can't restart Postgres

On 02/15/2017 08:35 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
> Yes, that’s the correct sequence of scripts. And no there’s not anything really helpful in the system logs.
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> I’m thinking that at this point I need to approach this problem as more of a disaster recovery. There was a full pg_dumpall file that was deleted and cannot be recovered so I need to recover the data from the /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main directory. I believe this is called a file level recovery. I assume I need to use a fully functional, same version PG (on another machine?) to create a full dump of the data directory. Once I have this I can re-install Postgres on the initial server and read the databases back into it.
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> Any advice on how to best go about this? The official documentation seems a bit thin:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/backup-file.html
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> I’ve only worked with normal (pg_dump, pg_dumpall) backups in the past.

Shawn

As the postgres user:

/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main start

What returns?

Sincerely,

JD

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