Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8458763294D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:44:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99647-09 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:44:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from easy5.in-chemnitz.de (easy5.in-chemnitz.de [188.40.107.83]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079C6632815 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:44:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by easy5.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F06518018 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from easy5.in-chemnitz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (easy5.in-chemnitz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LRJ5kcA4RFdH for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by easy5.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix, from userid 1013) id B798F518017; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:44:33 +0200 From: Tino Schwarze To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware Message-ID: <20100331084433.GD1093@easy5.in-chemnitz.de> References: <7965A9DCF12CC14984420BCC37B1608F25AB1AED49@Elzar.grant.co.uk> <1269959369.15416.5.camel@deimos> <20100330143831.GE17567@easy5.in-chemnitz.de> <1CA7FF980DA3824F9A5C31532B7A40DCC6D764D6@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1CA7FF980DA3824F9A5C31532B7A40DCC6D764D6@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.74 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.74 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/274 X-Sequence-Number: 34073 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:07:54PM -0400, Dai, Tino wrote: > I'm not a dba. I'm a sysadmin by training. Is there some way to > mirror the disks at the OS level? And then move it to the new > machine. Just a though, I don't know the exact steps. But if you > are interested, I can see what I can find. It would work if both architectures were the same. But Renato is migrating from 32 bit to 64 bit, so the on-disk format changes. Tino, too. :-) -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de