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PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:43 am
by poochie
Hello,
today i made a complete backup wtih time machine and restored my whole system using it.
Now, poktertracker is not able to connect to the old database. When launching PT the database is visible but gray and PT tells me an Error occured.
I reinstalled Postgresql 9.0 but it did not help. When i try to connect to the PT4 database using pgadmin an error pops up:
FATAL: base/16392 is not a valid directory
DETAIL: File "base/16392/PG_VERSION" is missing

It looks like something with postgresql is messed up, can somebody help me, i have a really big database and this would really suck.

Re: PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:41 am
by kraada
Why did you perform the backup and restore? Did you take a separate backup using PT4?

Re: PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:47 am
by poochie
there were some other problems with mavericks,
i did not make a seperate backup of the database

Re: PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:29 am
by kraada
Try reinstalling PostgreSQL as explained here - you shouldn't need to uninstall, just reinstall. If the installer gives an error let me know what it is.

Re: PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:34 am
by poochie
i already did that as mentioned above,
unfortunately it did not solve the issue...

Re: PT broken after time machine restore

PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:02 pm
by poochie
i have good news,
after manually restoring the postgres folder with time machine and reinstalling postgresql suddently the database was recognized.
maybe this helps another time something like this happens.

highfalutin