From: | "Eliot, Christopher" <christopher(dot)eliot(at)nagrastar(dot)com> |
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To: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Moving DB data disk to a different machine |
Date: | 2008-09-15 19:09:58 |
Message-ID: | 5C27B2F8693FA3458E71B4A81551253F03A3C6E5@NSTAR-MAIL1.windows.nagrastar.com |
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I have a database that I use for testing. The contents are not
particularly critical; if I were to lose that data, it would be an
annoyance but not a disaster. Thus I do not back up the DB.
My server machine (actually my windows workstation) became very ill, so
the IT folks gave me a new workstation, but installed the disk drive
from the old workstation in the new one as a secondary drive.
After installing PostgreSQL 8.2 (what we had been using) on this new
workstation, I tried simply copying the 'Program
Files\Postgresql\8.2\data' directory over from the old disk to the new,
but the result is that when I try to bring up the PostgreSQL server, it
takes a long time, and then goes down.
I can arrange to recreate my DB from scratch but it would be a bit of a
pain.
Is there any easy way to make the old DB directory image just work?
Thanks,
Topher Eliot
christopher(dot)eliot(at)nagrastar(dot)com
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