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1. transfer just the data directories from linux to windows?

   Antoine <melser.anton@gmail.com> — 2006-12-01T16:19:05Z

   Hi,
   We have some backups from our prod server and I was wondering if there
   would be any problems with just copying the data directory to a
   windows install (same version - 8.1.4) ... any pointers?
   Cheers
   Antoine
   
   

2. Re: transfer just the data directories from linux to windows?

   Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> — 2006-12-01T17:42:58Z

   > Hi,
   > We have some backups from our prod server and I was wondering 
   > if there would be any problems with just copying the data 
   > directory to a windows install (same version - 8.1.4) ... any 
   > pointers?
   
   If both servers are windows servers, and both are running the same
   version of pg, then you can just copy the files over. Make sure the
   postgresql service is *stopped* when you do the copying. (Clean out
   everything in the data directory before you copy them over)
   If either of those two are not the same, you can't.
   
   //Magnus