On 23/10/2017, 17:17, "George Neuner" wrote:
>Doesn't GCloud provide a way to export drive images?
[He asks naively, never having used it.]
Nope – just the dd method (although this doesn’t work on VMWare, so you need to
use a VWM utility on a Win pc to get it). I’m pretty sure Google use
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:14:18 +0100, Martin Moore
wrote:
>Same server. I tried a few times.
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>I didn’t move the db separately, but did a ‘dd’ to copy the disk
>to an imagefile which was converted and loaded into VMWare.
If you copied the boot device that way while the system was running,
then yo
OK, cheers.
How can I remove the db so I can restore it properly?
From: Scott Mead
Date: Monday, 23 October 2017 at 16:35
To: Martin Moore
Cc: Michael Nolan , "pgsql-general@postgresql.org"
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.6 fails to start on VMWare
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> *Subject: *Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.6 fails to start on VMWare
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It was running – not sure how dd handles this. Maybe badly… ☺
From: Michael Nolan
Date: Monday, 23 October 2017 at 15:52
To: Martin Moore
Cc: rob stone , "pgsql-general@postgresql.org"
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.6 fails to start on VMWare
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Martin Moore
wrote:
> Same server. I tried a few times.
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> I didn’t move the db separately, but did a ‘dd’ to copy the disk to an
> imagefile which was converted and loaded into VMWare.
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> I ‘believed’ that this should keep the low level disk structure the same,
Same server. I tried a few times.
I didn’t move the db separately, but did a ‘dd’ to copy the disk to an
imagefile which was converted and loaded into VMWare.
I ‘believed’ that this should keep the low level disk structure the same, but
if this has corrupted the files I can drop, dump and resto
On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 15:13 +0100, Martin Moore wrote:
> 2017-10-22 14:08:28 UTC [2479-1] LOG: 0: database system
> shutdown was interrupted; last known up at 2017-10-22 14:07:20 UTC
There is something missing here. Last shutdown at 2017-10-22 14:07:20
UTC on which server?
Then attempting t
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Martin Moore wrote:
> I’ve migrated a running Debian Jessie system from a Google Compute instance
> to a VMWare ESXi 6.5 system.
How did you actually do this migration? It is really easy to finish
with a corrupted instance if not doing things correctly in this w
