Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-23 Thread Rick Gigger
I could have my developer do this if it would be useful to someone else. But in general I think my time would be much better served fixing my backup situation and monitoring them so that this CAN'T happen again. It shouldn't have happened this time. On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Ray Stell

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-20 Thread Jerry Sievers
Rick Gigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure recently. If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled data directory is it safe to say it's totally hosed or is there some chance of recovery?

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-19 Thread Rick Gigger
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/06 00:46, Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 23:52, Rick Gigger wrote: Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: [snip] Not much that is useful. I think this is a

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-19 Thread Rick Gigger
Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/06 00:46, Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 23:52, Rick Gigger wrote: Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: [snip] Not much that is useful.

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-19 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:14:46 -0600, Rick Gigger wrote: I think we've got it figure out though. We were able to patch up the db enough to extract the data with some help from google and old postings from Tom. It would be really great if you put down the specifics of what you googled/old

[GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Rick Gigger
To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure recently. If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled data directory is it safe to say it's totally hosed or is there some chance of recovery? pg_dump: ERROR: could not open

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure recently. If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled data directory is it safe to say it's totally

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Rick Gigger
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure recently. If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled data directory is it safe to

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Rick Gigger
Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure recently. If I got an error like this when trying to dump a db from the mangled data

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 23:52, Rick Gigger wrote: Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a hardware failure

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Rick Gigger
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 23:52, Rick Gigger wrote: Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: To make a long story short lets just say that I had a bit of a

Re: [GENERAL] hardware failure - data recovery

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/06 00:46, Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 23:52, Rick Gigger wrote: Rick Gigger wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 19:57, Rick Gigger wrote: [snip] Not much that is useful. I think this is a little beyond that