Re: hardware failure - data recovery

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote:
>> To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware
>> failure recently.
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>> If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled
>> data directory is it safe to say it's totally hosed or is there some
>> chance of recovery?
>>
>> pg_dump: ERROR: could not open relation 1663/18392/18400: No such file
>> or directory
>> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "file" failed:
>> PQendcopy() failed.
>> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not open relation
>> 1663/18392/18400: No such file or directory
>> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.file (vfs_id, vfs_type, vfs_path,
>> vfs_name, vfs_modified, vfs_owner, vfs_data) TO stdout;
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> What happens when you fsck the relevant partitions?

Errors about a bunch of duplicate inodes, missing inodes, etc. Should I
do it again and get some of the exact text for you?