From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to import raw data directories in a cluster (Debian)?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:22:35 +0200
Message-ID: <1315416155.3289.6.camel@asterix.Askesis.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6742870200002500040E45@gw.wicourts.gov>
References: <1315379614.4054.6.camel@panoramix.Askesis.nl>
<4E6742870200002500040E45@gw.wicourts.gov>
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:08 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> In any event, if the files are recovered to their original
> locations, the database should start.
I think that he lost the postgres database in the proces, which seems to
hold the information for every database in the cluster.
> > Of course he has no useful backups,
>
> That should never be an "of course"
I should have marked the cynical mode a bit more clear ;-)
> What upgrade?
See the cynical remark above.
> I thought you said that pg_dropcluster was what was
> run? When you say the directories are "untouched" does that mean
> that no files have been deleted from them?
Apart from the postgres and template* databases...
> Import? From what? From the earlier parts of your post it sounded
> like you need someone who knows the OS and its utilities to see if
> they can recover deleted files. If you can recover them to the
> directories from which they were deleted, I would expect the
> database cluster to start right up.
Mmmmm. Than he has a problem. XFS does not support undelete.
Thanks for the answer.
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