That's never a recommended way to move data. You need to take the
dump and import it into the new instance.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lars Gustafsson <gumse@mac.com> wrote:
> He had the /data directory on a USB memory
>
> Lars.
>
>
> 3 nov 2009 kl. 19.24 skrev Lonni J Friedman:
>
>> How did you get the data onto the new server?
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Lars Gustafsson <gumse@mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A client of mine hade a HD crash, he had a backup of his pgsql/data
>>> catalog,
>>> but when trying to start the server (on a newly installed postgres, same
>>> version he had) I get the following message:
>>>
>>> postgres$ FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
>>> DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with PG_CONTROL_VERSION
>>> 906166272, but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 822.
>>> HINT: It looks like you need to initdb.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it beyond repair ? Any last resorts ?
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