wheel wrote: > Can a pgsql 8.1 database be restored from the raw file? For one database > I have only the files found in the base folder, example C:\PostgreSQL > \data\base\16404, there are many files called 1247, 1248, etc (no > extension). I think these are the files that make up the database? For > this db I don't have a dump file, just what is on disk. I do know the > users and passwords etc. I've hunted around quite a bit in various > places and most of the restore discussions center around files created > with pg_dump. Uh, do you have the entier /data directory tree? If so, just restore the directory start it up a binary. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@xxxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +