On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:05:14 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Kevin > > Kempter<kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday 25 July 2009 13:23:54 Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kevin > >> > >> Kempter<kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Saturday 25 July 2009 13:02:52 Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Kevin > >> >> > >> >> Kempter<kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> > Hi all; > >> >> > > >> >> > I'm trying to restore from a tar of the filesystem on a debian box > >> >> > and I get xlog errors. > >> >> > > >> >> > I suspect I need to run pg_resetxlog but I cannot find it anywhere, > >> >> > where would I find pg_resetxlog on a debian box that was installed > >> >> > via the deb packages ? or how do I get it ? > >> >> > >> >> Wait, if you're restoring a backup, to a freshly initted db, then you > >> >> shouldn't be getting any kind of pg_xlog errors. If you are, then > >> >> there's likely something wrong with your server that pg_resetxlog > >> >> isn't going to fix in the long term. Are you running on windows with > >> >> anti-virus software or have some other kind of possible problem that > >> >> could be causing a problem with the postmaster writing to the hard > >> >> drives? > >> > > >> > we're not restoring from a pg_dump. We were in the process of moving > >> > the db to a new server. We brought the db down (on host A) and did an > >> > rsync of all the db dir's (including tablespace dir's) to host B. > >> > > >> > Then bad things were done to host A and we want to get back to where > >> > we started. So, we stopped the db on host A and rsync'ed the files > >> > back from host B to host A. Now when I try and start the db I see all > >> > these tx sement errors in the log. > >> > > >> > We're actually ok if we loose anything that was in the pg_xlog dir. > >> > >> Did you rsync the pg_xlog and pg_clog (i.e. EVERYTHING under data/) or > >> just the base directory? You really need to do an rsync of > >> everything, not most everything. > > > > we rsync'ed EVERYTHING (the entire directory and all sub-dirs) > > OK, on my laptop, in the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main there's a bunch > of dirs that look like this: > > base pg_clog pg_subtrans pg_twophase pg_xlog > postmaster.pid server.crt > global pg_multixact pg_tblspc PG_VERSION postmaster.opts > root.crt server.key > > Did you rsync the base dir only, or all of the directories above? > Cause if you just rsynced base, you need the rest of them, as well. I rsync'd the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main dir. However several of the sub- dirs were soft links (pg_xlog, server.cert, root.cert and server.key) so I unfortunately did not get the data from the links' real location since they all pointed to outside of the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main tree -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
