Re: how to restore postgre 8.3 from data directory

I have the same version in the two servers (postgre 8.3), the difference is
only the architecture , the postgres was running in x86_64 and the restore
machine is a x86. But I can try to restore in x86, should I do it?

thanks alberto

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:02 PM, jose javier parra sanchez <
jojapasa(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> It depends, the original data was from what version ?, what platform
> (x86/x86_64/ppc/..) ?
>
> 2009/10/14 Alberto Asuero Arroyo <albertoasuero(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to restore the postgre 8.3 from a data directory
> > /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main which has the following content:
> >
> > $ ls -l
> >
> > drwx------ 5 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 base
> > drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 12:10 global
> > drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_clog
> > drwx------ 4 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_multixact
> > drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_subtrans
> > drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_tblspc
> > drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_twophase
> > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 oct 14 11:53 PG_VERSION
> > drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4096 oct 14 11:53 pg_xlog
> > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 133 oct 14 12:05 postmaster.opts
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 oct 14 11:53 root.crt ->
> > /etc/postgresql-common/root.
> > crt
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 oct 14 11:53 server.crt ->
> > /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 oct 14 11:53 server.key ->
> > /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm tried to replace this directory with the directory of my backup, but
> I
> > had no success on startup.
> >
> > Is it possible restore postgre from a data source (I don't have any
> dump)
> >
> > Thanks, ALberto
>
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