Re: Restarting DB after moving to another drive - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Francisco Olarte
Subject Re: Restarting DB after moving to another drive
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Msg-id CA+bJJbzDzWsix7M2Eb9H_Uko9SmkRUzwpRdEDW3tk=cfbmJdbw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Restarting DB after moving to another drive  (Daniel Begin <jfd553@hotmail.com>)
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( OOps, forgot to cc the list again in previous, quoting all message
for context ).

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Daniel Begin <jfd553@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Makes sense considering the error message! Maybe an image backup would make the job...

I do not know how they are, made in windows, but it should. Also, IIRC
there were versions of the GNU unix common utilities ( cp, rm, mv, ln
) for windows which correctly worked with links, if you can get hold
of a reaosnable windows tar a 'tar c | tar x' should do the trick too.
Also, look at the copy command help, in linux I know cp -a ( for
archive ) does normally the trick.

Francisco Olarte.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francisco Olarte [mailto:folarte@peoplecall.com]
> Sent: May-11-15 08:55
> To: Daniel Begin
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restarting DB after moving to another drive
>
> Hi Daniel.
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Daniel Begin <jfd553@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I just get it back running with the old drive - was some Windows
>> hidden behavior!
>> However, does someone could tell me what went wrong with the procedure
>> I used to move the DB?
>
> It's been more than a decade since I've used windows, but from my past experience I'll bet you did not copy the DB
right( you did not copy the symbolic links, IIRC windows normal tools did not cope with them too well, but that was on
w2k,YMMV ). 
>
> Francisco Olarte.
>


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