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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:43:57AM +0530, Adarsh Sharma wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> 2 days ago, I need to backup 2 databases in my Database server because I
> need to format the system and reinstalls again with the back up databases.
>
> After a fresh install of ubuntu-10.4 , I install postgreplus-8.4 binary and
> I think giving the previous data directory /hdd2-1/postgres_data during
> installation for my own testing.
>
> I think it picks the previous data and therefore, no need for restoring
> backups of 2 databases that was taken before.
*If* the versions of the old and new PostgreSQL don't differ very wildly
this will most probably work, yes (well: you'd also run into problems
with different processor architectuures).
> But what I have noticed that there is 6 databases in my Postgres database
> and one database *pdc_uima* doesn't have any entry in \l command.
Hm. I don't understand: you re-used the data directory for the new
installation and the new installation lost one database?
> However I restore it from my previous backup.
and after the restore it was there again? That's definitely strange.
Regards
- -- tomás
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