Re: dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!
Never mind -- somehow I got the directory wrong; it was in
/data0/postgres.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed
> for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade,
> which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes,
> and put them in /data0/backups/postgres. Now none of my databases are
> there:
>
> aperrin@perrin:~$ psql auth
> psql: FATAL: Database "auth" does not exist in the system catalog.
>
>
> and nothing's in the backup location:
>
> perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
> drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:45 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 preserve
> perrin:/var/log/postgresql# ls -la /data0/backups/postgres/preserve/
> total 8
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 .
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 10:46 ..
>
>
>
>
> HELP! Can anyone shed light on what's happened?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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