Re: [HACKERS] Hard failure, can't restart DB

2007-05-03 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:37:33AM -0400, David Dollar wrote: > We recently experienced a hard media failure. It turns out our admin guys > have been doing backups by backing up the pgsql data directory, but not > prepping the db first. What platform is this? > After a restore, when I try to star

[HACKERS] Hard failure, can't restart DB

2007-05-03 Thread David Dollar
We recently experienced a hard media failure. It turns out our admin guys have been doing backups by backing up the pgsql data directory, but not prepping the db first. After a restore, when I try to start the database I get "LOG: logger shutting down" and nothing else. This is Postgres 8.1.3.