On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 18:12, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > The other option is to boot from some kind of boot disk (like knoppix), > and then mount the drive and copy out the files.
Booting from Knoppix worked great. I'm not sure why I didn't think of that before. I was able to copy the files from the directory. However, I still have a problem. The files I copies were the database cluster (because I hadn't been able to dump the db before it quit working). I copied the cluster to a new directory and tried to start postmaster manually, specifying -D to point it to that directory. When I do this, I get an error saying that it couldn't allocate the resources needed to start it. Nothing has changed since the last time it ran successfully, but I edited postgresql.conf anyway to allocate the minimum of everything and still get the same error. When I try to run it as a service, I get the (very helpful) error from Windows: "The postmaster service could not be started. A system error has occurred. System error 1067 has occurred. The process terminated unexpectedly." I also have tried copying the cluster to a linux box to try to start the database on that machine, with that data directory, but it wouldn't go. I may try doing the same thing on a Windows box with a clean cygwin install. any other suggestions? Casey
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