Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YPTSm-0002Y9-Mx for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:08:36 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YPTSm-0006zV-5a for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:08:36 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YPTSl-0006zJ-38 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:08:35 +0000 Received: from vs0601-ipv6-5.onit4u.de ([2a01:4f8:130:116b::5] helo=vserver0601.onit4u.de) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YPTSh-0001DE-DW for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:08:33 +0000 X-PDA-ORIGIN: vserver0601.onit4u.de Received: (qmail 30116 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2015 10:08:25 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 30105, pid: 30111, t: 0.2025s scanners: clamav: 0.98.5/m:55/d:20090 Received: from ipservice-092-211-039-217.092.211.pools.vodafone-ip.de (HELO ?192.168.2.134?) (Josef.Springer@joops.com@92.211.39.217) by vserver0601.onit4u.de with SMTP; 22 Feb 2015 10:08:25 -0000 Message-ID: <54E9AAA5.1000705@joops.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:08:37 +0100 From: Josef Springer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: How can i keep my databases when installing PostgreSQL ? Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org Hello everybody,

i must reinstall PostgreSQL, because the installed server does not work anymore. Because of lost disk sectors the server can not be started in the system-services GUI. The result of the starting request is
"Fehler 1053 Der Dienst antwortet nicht auf die Start oder Steueranweisung"

What is the doing to preserve existing databases, when reinstalling PostgreSQL ?

Can anybody help me ?

Best regards,
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