Thunza
12-18-2010, 09:01 PM
Hi there,
I apologise in advance if this has been answered on countless previous posts - I did a search but I could not find anything that fitted my circumstances exactly (although, then again, I think my search phrasing might have just been clumsy).
My motherboard eventually cooked itself the other day, which resulted in me investing in a new machine with a new processor, power supply, ram, an upgrade to Windows 7 and a harddrive, although I kept my old hard drive for the purpose of migrating my data and to utilize as a back up drive.
I have subseuently downloaded the latest version of HEM, whiich couples PostGreSQL 8.4 as part of the package. My question pertains to how I can copy the db that was on the old drive (which was on PostGreSQL 8.3). I have attempted to copy the files and folders under the "data" folder from the old drive into the same folder on the new drive under the 8.4/data folder (as suggested in one of the posts I found), but this simply results in me not being able to connect to the server (unless there are one or two files that I should not be copying over in this directory as it is a later version of PostGreSQL???)
I have also attempted to go back and install PostGreSQL3 to try and negotiate a manner to get up and running on the older version so I could then export files the usual way, but with no success - could not get it to install (although there is a high probability that this could be purely a result of a user understanding deficiency...:))
Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I apologise in advance if this has been answered on countless previous posts - I did a search but I could not find anything that fitted my circumstances exactly (although, then again, I think my search phrasing might have just been clumsy).
My motherboard eventually cooked itself the other day, which resulted in me investing in a new machine with a new processor, power supply, ram, an upgrade to Windows 7 and a harddrive, although I kept my old hard drive for the purpose of migrating my data and to utilize as a back up drive.
I have subseuently downloaded the latest version of HEM, whiich couples PostGreSQL 8.4 as part of the package. My question pertains to how I can copy the db that was on the old drive (which was on PostGreSQL 8.3). I have attempted to copy the files and folders under the "data" folder from the old drive into the same folder on the new drive under the 8.4/data folder (as suggested in one of the posts I found), but this simply results in me not being able to connect to the server (unless there are one or two files that I should not be copying over in this directory as it is a later version of PostGreSQL???)
I have also attempted to go back and install PostGreSQL3 to try and negotiate a manner to get up and running on the older version so I could then export files the usual way, but with no success - could not get it to install (although there is a high probability that this could be purely a result of a user understanding deficiency...:))
Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!