Save postgres database from broken ubuntu 10.04 server Recently a database server with an important db broke (some grub linux issue that I'd prefer not to solve).

I can still access the filesystem. Is there a chance to transfer the database by only moving some directories with content to an equal machine?

This is a 32 bit ubuntu 10.04 with postgres 8.4

Edit: On ubuntu 10,04 the postgresql data directory is /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main and not /usr/local/pgsql/data
I think backing up the "data directory" is what you want.

Moving the whole directory to a new server should be what you might look into. This will move everything within the cluster. From there, you can drop, move,... your single databases as you need to.