On 02/15/2017 08:35 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
Yes, that’s the correct sequence of scripts.  And no there’s not anything 
really helpful in the system logs.

I’m thinking that at this point I need to approach this problem as more of a 
disaster recovery.  There was a full pg_dumpall  file that was deleted and 
cannot be recovered so I need to recover the data from the 
/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main directory.  I believe this is called a file level 
recovery.  I assume I need to use a fully functional, same version PG (on 
another machine?) to create a full dump of the data directory.  Once I have 
this I can re-install Postgres on the initial server and read the databases 
back into it.

Any advice on how to best go about this?  The official documentation seems a 
bit thin:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/backup-file.html

I’ve only worked with normal (pg_dump, pg_dumpall) backups in the past.

Shawn

As the postgres user:

/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main start

What returns?

Sincerely,

JD


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