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* Recovered data directory
@ 2021-04-18 12:44 Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>
  2021-04-18 12:54 ` Re: Recovered data directory Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
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From: Yambu @ 2021-04-18 12:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>

Hello

I lost data when my server crashed, so i have rebuilt a new server and have
recovered the directory /var/lib/pgsql/10/data  is there anything i need to
do to start a new postgres instance after having copied the old recovered
/var/lib/pgsql/10/data to new data directory with the same path

Pg 10

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* Re: Recovered data directory
  2021-04-18 12:44 Recovered data directory Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>
@ 2021-04-18 12:54 ` Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
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From: Julien Rouhaud @ 2021-04-18 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>; +Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 02:44:03PM +0200, Yambu wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I lost data when my server crashed, so i have rebuilt a new server and have
> recovered the directory /var/lib/pgsql/10/data  is there anything i need to
> do to start a new postgres instance after having copied the old recovered
> /var/lib/pgsql/10/data to new data directory with the same path

You also need all tablespaces directory if you had any, and possibly the pg_wal
directory if it was a symlink.

Note that if you get any error when trying to start the server it would
actually be useful to mention them.





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