Re: recovery from server crash

Are you sure you have the raw database files?  The /home directory is
not where they are normally installed by default...

If those really are the database files I believe you can try to
reinstall postgres following the normal installation instructions but do
not do the initdb step.  Skip to starting the postmaster but reference
the location of the data directory under /home instead.

If there were transactions in process when it crashed it might not
start.  It will take the more experienced postgres folks on the list to
help you recover from that.

Might try searching the hackers and general list as well.

HTH.

Mike


On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 04:42, Debs wrote:
> I have a set of database files from PostgreSQL where the
> root partition crashed but the /home was saved.  How do I remount
> these databases with a new installation of the O/S and database
> executables?  N.B. I _don't_ have SQL dumps, just the actual raw
> database files themselves
>
>
> thanks in advance
> Debs
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