On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Diogo Melo <dmelo87(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't boot the postgres server anymore. I just have access to the files,
> like the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 path, for example. I use debian and
> postgresql-8.3 .
>
> I don't have any sql dump. How can I recover my databases with just the
> binary files there?
>
> I tried copy the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 to another a installation of
> postgresql-8.3 on another server, but without success.
How did you copy them? What error(s) did you get?