jehan procaccia wrote: > However I do have a tar file of the filesystem , it was on a RHEL 3 > with rh-postgresql-server-7.3.9-2 and I have a tar of /var/lib/pgslq > will just restoring the whole directory /var/lib/pgsql will suffices Assuming that you made the tarball when the server was shut down, just restore it and you should be all set. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/