On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Kevin Kempter<kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I'd do it again with -L -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
