Re: Restarting DB after moving to another drive

Francisco wrote: "How big/critical is your database?"

How big? According to PgAdmin my personal database is about 2TB...
How critical? Well, about a year of work!-)

Francisco wrote: "just did a stop/cp/change pgdata /restart, I suppose windows must have comparable ways"
This is what I have just tried when I got “Could not read symbolic link “pg_tblspc/100589”: Invalid argument”

Considering both drives are identical, could an image backup have done the job properly instead of a plane copy?
Daniel

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From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Francisco Olarte
Sent: May-11-15 11:01
To: Daniel Begin
Cc: rod(at)iol(dot)ie; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restarting DB after moving to another drive

Hi Daniel.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Begin <jfd553(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand properly...
> When I installed Postgresql, I set $PGDATA to point on my old drive
> and I must now move everything on the new one.
> In order to move everything on the new drive I must create a
> tablespace on the new drive and then explicitly define this tablespace
> as the new location of...
> - the postgres database
> - my personal database
> - pg_default
> - pg_global
> Anything I missed or put in the wrong sequence?

I do not think it is that easy. You can move nearly everything, but it will be slow an you are not going to get rid of the old disk.

One question, ¿ How big/critical is your database ? because all your problems can be solved with a dump/initdb/restore easily, and if you can leave it doing overnight it is th easier way. Also, I've moved directories across disks before, and it has worked, but I use linux which is much simpler, and just did an stop / cp / change pgdata / restart, I suppose windows must have comparable ways.

Francisco Olarte.

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