Re: [Sks-devel] Server won't start after copy of DB

[C.J. Adams-Collier]

On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:44 +0200, Arnold wrote:
> > On 06/23/2010 05:40 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> >> oh.  I just thought of something: You will likely get this done more
> >> quickly if you grab the snapshot and start over.
> > I am afraid you are right... Now that the server is running again, I can
> > create my own dump instead of downloading it and rebuild from that. This
> > will be some job for the weekend.
> 
> So, this is what I did. I kept the server running with the database
> physically located at the old hard disk. From there I made a full key dump
> (totally up to date and much faster than downloading several GB). Then, I
> rebuilt (full build) the whole database from scratch on the new hard disk
> using the key dump.
> Now it is working on the new partition! :-)
> 
> The question now is, how to do a backup that can be restored to a new disk?
> 
> Best regards,
>    Arnold

Isn't that the question you just answered? :)

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