On 6/6/06, Bob Ambroso <bambroso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I did as you instructed... Installed FC2 on another computer did a filesystem backup of the "upgraded" data folder and moved it to the new/old FC2 system. Performed a cursory configuration on the 7.4 postgres and then I un-tarred the backup into the data folder. Started up the postgres server and got no errors. I performed the pg_dumpall and moved the dumpall.dmp file to the "upgraded" or 8.x system. Now I am really in a loop because I cannot restore the dump file unless the server is running but it will not run because the data format is different.. I would assume I have to nuke the thing back to bare bones and then create the old databases and then perform a restore.... Does this sound right?? How do I take the upgraded postgres server back to bare bones.. initdb again??
Delete the contents of /var/lib/pgsql, then "service postgres start", and then import the DB dump. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
