On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Martin Moore <martin(dot)moore(at)avbrief(dot)com>
wrote:
> Same server. I tried a few times.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Ta,
>
> Martin.
>
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