My server crashed yesterday, the hd was saved though and I was able to get a copy of the data directory of my pg cluster. On the server now, when I start pg, I can see only like 1% of my data, there are many dbs/ tables and rows missing. But the data dir seems ok in size though. So I copied the whole data dir to a new serv, installed the same pg version but now I can't get it started at all. There are some weird things in the pg_controldata : pg_control last modified: Tue 03 Sep 6869 17:57:36 CET Time of latest checkpoint: Thu 11 Jan 1116953 03:46:31 CET LC_COLLATE: LC_CTYPE: So now I can't start the server because of the blank locale : Starting PostgreSQL 8.1 database server: main* Error: The server must be started under the locale : which does not exist any more. Soo... Is there a chance for me to see again my data ? What can I do to fix this ? Thanks for any suggestions ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/