Re: Recover data from crashed HD

SOLVED!!

I tried a tip of a earlier post
- I wiped the new disk clean of all postgres packages.
- I moved the old postgres lib dir to /var/lib/postgresql
- did a apt-get install postgresql which installed postgres and all
packages needed.

During the installation process a message appeared the package has
detected a data dir.
Then it said that postmaster was running at pid 337, but there was no
such process. I stopped the installation and removed the postmaster.pid
file, and contiued the installation.
Now it works great, I can access all old data.

Thank you very much for the help

/nisse

ons 2002-10-23 klockan 20.23 skrev mallah@trade-india.com:
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> > Hello!
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> > One of my harddrives crashed two day ago. Only the /lib och /usr
> > directories was on one of my other hd's.
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> Do you mean /lib which contained  the $PGDATA  is still accessable.
> please try to locate the folder named "data" that contains folder like
> base, pg_xlog , global , pg_clog etc.
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> In case such a folder is available to you , you can start the postmaster daemon
> by specifying the PGDATA folder (-D) option.
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> please let us know if such folder is there , we can help you recoverver you data.
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> Regds
> MAllah.
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> > The old hd can no longer be detected by the bios. I have reinstalled everything now.
> > The data directory in the old /lib contains what I would guess is
> > postgresqls table data. Can I recover the data?
> > I have tried to overwrite the new installation with the old files, but the old database is not
> > there.
> >
> > I am a newbie in SQL-land, does anyone know how to revcover the data?
> >
> > /nisse
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