On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:24:56 -0700, Berislav Lopac <berislav.lopac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have recently reinstalled my Windows mychine, including the > PostgreSQL server, but (due to a system crash, unrelated to Postgres) I > wasn't able to dump my databases to import them now. However, I have a > full copy of the original system, including all the files of the > original Postgres installation. > > Is there a way to restore the databases from the original installation > into the new one? For example, in MySQL I would be able to just copy > the data files; is there something similar in Postgres? Yes it should work. There should be a recovery if postgres was running when the boc crashed. Note, you don't want to copy files out from under a running server to do backups. That won't work.
