recovering windows database after crash

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#1Judicaël Dehotin
dehotin@lyon.cemagref.fr

Hello,

I have postgresql 8.0 under windows, with pgadmin 3
Unfortunaly i have met a problem with postgresql which obliged me to
reinstall postgresql. The bad thing is i have no backup of my database
before the crash (shame on me !! ;-)) )

So i wonder if it is possible, with the folder of
/postgreql/data/8.0/data/base which seem contain already the
directories of my database , to recover it ?

MAny thanks for your answer !

Judical Dehotin

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#2Magnus Hagander
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In reply to: Judicaël Dehotin (#1)
Re: recovering windows database after crash

Hello,

I have postgresql 8.0 under windows, with pgadmin 3
Unfortunaly i have met a problem with postgresql which
obliged me to reinstall postgresql. The bad thing is i have
no backup of my database before the crash (shame on me !! ;-)) )

So i wonder if it is possible, with the folder of
/postgreql/data/8.0/data/base which seem contain already the
directories of my database , to recover it ?

Assuming yo uhave all the files, sure. Just run the installer again (make sure you use the same version you had before!!), set the data directory to the same you had before, and make sure th einstaller is set *not* to run initdb. It should pick it up automatically.

//Magnus

#3Jim Nasby
Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com
In reply to: Magnus Hagander (#2)
Re: recovering windows database after crash

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:24:02PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:

Hello,

I have postgresql 8.0 under windows, with pgadmin 3
Unfortunaly i have met a problem with postgresql which
obliged me to reinstall postgresql. The bad thing is i have
no backup of my database before the crash (shame on me !! ;-)) )

So i wonder if it is possible, with the folder of
/postgreql/data/8.0/data/base which seem contain already the
directories of my database , to recover it ?

Assuming yo uhave all the files, sure. Just run the installer again (make sure you use the same version you had before!!), set the data directory to the same you had before, and make sure th einstaller is set *not* to run initdb. It should pick it up automatically.

And to be safe make a backup of the entire directory
(/postgresql/data/8.0) if you can.
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