Thread: backup restore

You ought to be able to just start up Postgres pointing to the existing
data. So assuming the
data directory is /db, just doing 'postmaster -D /db' should work.

Provided, of course, you installed the exact version that was there
before, with the same user/uid
as before.

On Nov 11, 2003, at 9:51 PM, Colm De Barra wrote:

> Hi
> I'm in charge of a linux DB server running postgres 7.3.2.
> The OS disk recently died taking the postgres installation
> with it but the data directory of postgres was on a seperate SCSI
> disk and is still OK.
>  
> I've put in a new OS disk, installed linux on it again, mounted the
> data
> disk, and installed postgres up as far as the "make install" stage. 
> Can anyone tell me where to go from here to get postgres to run with
> the
> old DB ?? is all the DB structure information stored in the data
> directory ?
>  
> Any help would be appreciated
> Colm
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