| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Srinivas Kotapally <ksrinivas(at)bisil(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using the /var/lib/pgsql/data directory in the absense |
| Date: | 2003-07-23 05:42:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20030722224045.T55110-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Srinivas Kotapally wrote:
> I am a newbie PostgreSQL DB admin. I have the following problem:
> 1. I have a redhat 8 box which has postgres installed.
> 2. I have reinstalled postgresql 7.2.1-5 (native postgres installation on
> RedHat 7.3) on the redhat 8.0
> 3. I don't have the database backups from my 7.3 installation - I however
> have access to the /var/lib/pgsql/data directory.
>
> My question is... can I use this to recover the database from the 7.3
> version. We got hacked and the earlier system was unusable.
> I tried to do fire up the postmaster process and could not fire up the DB.
> I don't get a message the system just returns to the prompt without starting
> the database.
How are you attempting to start the postmaster? If it's failing it should
be giving you output unless it's being redirected somewhere.
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