Re: Migrating from a slave disk

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Gastón Simone <gaston(at)apraful(dot)com(dot)uy>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Migrating from a slave disk
Date: 2004-04-05 23:16:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0404051715070.13959-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Gastón Simone wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a slave disk with an old PostgreSQL installation. Now I want to
> migrate its information to my new primary disk with a new PGSQL
> installation. I have to do it this way because de old disk does not boot as
> primary any more. It prints a kernel error.
> Can somebody help me? Thanks a lot!

Is this a linux box running kernel level mirroring? If so you can just
mount the drive to access it. If you've got a boot disk for the old drive
you just change the jumpers to move the old one in place of the new one
and boot from the boot floppy.

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