Re: Postgres 9.6 fails to start on VMWare

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Martin Moore <martin(dot)moore(at)avbrief(dot)com>
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> It was running – not sure how dd handles this. Maybe badly… ☺
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it doesn't handle it at all. This would be the cause of your issue.

--Scott

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> *From: *Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>
> *Date: *Monday, 23 October 2017 at 15:52
> *To: *Martin Moore <martin(dot)moore(at)avbrief(dot)com>
> *Cc: *rob stone <floriparob(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <
> pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Subject: *Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.6 fails to start on VMWare
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> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Martin Moore <martin(dot)moore(at)avbrief(dot)com>
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> Same server. I tried a few times.
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> I didn’t move the db separately, but did a ‘dd’ to copy the disk to an
> imagefile which was converted and loaded into VMWare.
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> I ‘believed’ that this should keep the low level disk structure the same,
> but if this has corrupted the files I can drop, dump and restore, in which
> case how do I ‘drop’ the DB without postgres running?
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> Ta,
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> Martin.
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> Was the server you were backing up shut down or in backup mode when you
> did the 'dd' copy?
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> Mike Nolan
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Scott Mead
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