On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:41 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:07, Craig White wrote: > > you do > > backup postgresql files using pg_dump right? > > You're absolutely right that I should have, but in this case I just started to > use postgresql last week as a testcase (not production yet). I haven't set up > backups for this yet. > It's not a big disaster when I loose the data, but would be nice if I could > save it. ---- I did much the same thing - I think it was upgrade from FC-2 to FC-4 and Postgres 7.4.x to 8.0.x and I chalked it up to a learning curve but I did have a pg_dump to go back to, it did teach me a lesson though. I have a cron job that regularly dumps my postgresql db's now. Craig