On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Wang, Mary Y <mary.y.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Tom. > > After talking to my co-worker, we decided to go to the last backup (we used the pg_dumpall -c command). > However, when I did enter "psql -f /usr/pgsql/backups/31.bak template1" to restore the database, I got " > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory > Is the postmaster running locally > and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'? > ". > I can't start my postmaster. So how would I restore my last good backup? The normal way is to drop the old cluster and create a new one. I'm not entirely sure how to do that on something as old as RHEL 2.1. The normal way would be to mv or rm -rf the /var/lib/pgsql/data dir and run initdb again. something like: sudo /etc/init.d/pgsql stop sudo rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data/* sudo -u postgres initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data sudo /etc/init.d/pgsql start or something like that. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
