Re: recover of data directory

From: "Gourish Singbal" <gourish(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Daniel Drotos" <drdani(at)mazsola(dot)iit(dot)uni-miskolc(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: recover of data directory
Date: 2006-05-29 11:19:20
Message-ID: 674d1f8a0605290419s36d85000q1cf73e0db2a0b568@mail.gmail.com
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tough luck .. could u query the unix groups and see if u could retrive the
original filenames and directory structure ?.

On 5/29/06, Daniel Drotos <drdani(at)mazsola(dot)iit(dot)uni-miskolc(dot)hu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> During machine maintenance I've made 'rm -rf *' on postgres data
> directory by a (very stupid) mistake. Postmaster was not running that
> time.
>
> Using e2undel I dumped out contents of deleted files (3728 files have
> been deleted by that command). Because of "rm -r", sizes of recovered
> directory files are 0, so I have no filenames and directory structure.
>
> Is there any chance of recover data directory if only dumped file
> contents are available?
>
> Daniel
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Best,
Gourish Singbal

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