Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-11 Thread Pierre Chevalier Géologue
Hi, Le 10/03/2016 21:10, John R Pierce a écrit : On 3/10/2016 12:05 PM, Alka Gupta wrote: The vendor won't give us any way to access the machine and retrieve the DB, so I removed the HDD and connected it to my Linux laptop. I was able to grab all the DB files and copy them to my Windows deskto

Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/10/2016 12:25 PM, Alka Gupta wrote: Do you know if there is any encryption or security or will plainly copying the files will work? Do I need to know any db usernames and passwords, which obviously I don't have? plain copy should be fine, any encryption would be file system level, and if

Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
al-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:10 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system On 3/10/2016 12:05 PM, Alka Gupta wrote: The vendor won'

Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-10 Thread Alka Gupta
al-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:10 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system On 3/10/2016 12:05 PM, Alka Gupta wrote: > The vendor won't give us any way to access the machine and retr

Re: [GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/10/2016 12:05 PM, Alka Gupta wrote: The vendor won't give us any way to access the machine and retrieve the DB, so I removed the HDD and connected it to my Linux laptop. I was able to grab all the DB files and copy them to my Windows desktop, where I then installed PostgreSQL 9.0 (to matc

[GENERAL] recovering database from a linux file system

2016-03-10 Thread Alka Gupta
All, We recently had a server crash at my company which contained a program to monitor various network devices around the world. Of course the server was sitting in a dusty closet somewhere and the owner is long gone from the company, so we can't find where any backups were stored. At any rate