Hi first post here, I hope you can help. We are running 8.1 on Windows 2003 server and have had a server crash over the weekend. A virus is suspected - we maintain an app server on someone else's network, though we do have anti-virus running, the symptoms were worrying - so we had to wipe and reinstall the OS and all programs. We had recovered the 8.1 folder and the data off the crashed computer prior to the wipe, but the last good .backup file is a few days older than that. Are there step by step instructions on restoring from the folder itself instead of a backup file? Is it even possible? Thanks, Keith ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/