On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:30:02PM +0100, Gevik Babakhani wrote: > > AFAIK stopping the server, zipping data dir, and restarting > > the server creates a zip file which is not easily portable to > > other computers due to some ntfs file system permission problems. > > > IIRC you have to re-assign owner and change permissions after you copy your > data dir to the new server. You don't need to reassign owner normally - we don't care about that. And if you extract into an existing directory, it should inherit it fine :-) But true, if you extract into a nwe directory, you may need to change the permissions. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster