Thread: having trouble restoring a database from files

Hi.
I was in the same situation a while ago, and compiling PG from source
solved the issue.
After installation is complete just run

> postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/

and everything should be back as before.

Andrea.

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:19 -0400, Trefethen, Zachary J wrote:
> Hello –
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> I searched through the archives but didn’t find a solution to the
> exact situation I am in – please help if you can.
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> had a server go down (running RHEL3), don’t have one of my databases
> backed up, but have the /var/lib/pgsql/ directory backed up.
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> I set up a new server and installed postgres on it, then untar’d
> my /var/lib/pgsql files into the new server, to attempt to restore the
> databases, but now postgresql won’t start.
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> [root@ew root]# service rhdb start
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> Starting PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition service:             [FAILED]
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> Any ideas on what might be preventing the service from starting?
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> Thanks!
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> Josh
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