"Gabor Siklos" <gabor@karamaan.com> writes:
> I need to back up our database off-site for disaster recovery. If I just
> back up the entire database data directory (i.e. /var/lib/pgsql/data) will I
> be able to restore from there?
This will not work. Please read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/backup.html
(adjust link per your PG version)
regards, tom lane