> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Edson Lidorio <edson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > There was a disaster in my development note. I was able to recover the > > data folder. PostgreSQL 9.6.2, was installed in Centos 7. > > > > Here are the procedures I'm trying to initialize Postgresql for me to do a > > backup. > > > > 1- I installed PostgreSQL 9.6.2 on a VM with Centos 7. > > 2- I stopped the PostgreSQL service: sudo systemctl stop postgresql-9.6 > > 3- I renamed the /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data folder to date data_old and > > copied the old date folder > > > > 4- I gave permission in the folder date: > > sudo chown postgres: postgres /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data; Ensure you actually have a folder named "/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data" with your database in it (not, possibly, a folder named "date" per your original message). as root: chown -R postgres:postgres /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data restorecon -R /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data If it still won't start after that, please do an "ls -alRZ /var/lib/pgsql/9.6", pastebin the output, and send the link. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general