From: | Erik Jones <ejones(at)engineyard(dot)com> |
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To: | Erik Jones <ejones(at)engineyard(dot)com> |
Cc: | Keaton Adams <kadams(at)mxlogic(dot)com>, V S P <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: WAL Log Shipping - Warm Standby not working under 8.3.7 |
Date: | 2010-01-09 00:55:13 |
Message-ID: | 1ABEC11F-4FCE-4040-AC4D-847A8DEA0349@engineyard.com |
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On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Erik Jones wrote:
>
> On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote:
>
>> OK,
>>
>> So what am I doing wrong here?
>>
>> Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine
>>
>> Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync across the network finish sooner.
>>
>> Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine
>>
>> Ran a script that does the following:
>>
>> select pg_start_backup('Master_Backup');
>> rsync -rvlpogtz ${masterdb}/* ${slave_dbuser}(at)${slave_host}:${slavedb}
>> select pg_stop_backup();
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}(at)${slave_host} rm ${slavedb}/postmaster.pid 2>/dev/null
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}(at)${slave_host} rm ${slave_backup_path}/0* 2>/dev/null
>> ssh ${slave_dbuser}(at)${slave_host} ${PSQL_BIN}/pg_ctl -D ${slavedb} -l logfile start
>
> Is ${slave_backup_path} your archive directory? Why are you deleting all of you archives there?
Also, what are the contents of your recovery.conf file? Are you using pg_standby? The typical setup is to clear <datadir>/pg_xlog on your standby and use pg_standby to recovery files directly from your archive directory?
Erik Jones, Database Administrator
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