Hello. Sorry for mi inglish! :-) Postgres 7.4 will not access 7.3 PGDATA repository. You must downgrade your binary files to any 7.3.X (latest is better) Note: 7.3 won't access 7.4 files neither. Yo can only do sub-sub-version updates without having to dump and restore (example 7.3.1. to 7.3.9 doesn't need to dump and restore of databases) greeting. -----Mensaje original----- De: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]En nombre de Peter Eisentraut Enviado el: miércoles, 29 de junio de 2005 15:48 Para: jehan procaccia CC: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: Re: [ADMIN] restore database from bare files 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/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)