Re: Restore postgres to specific time

Thanks for your reply, the logs are something like bellow，postgres will
restore every wal log I put in the xlog directory，and then continues
waiting for next wal log. The postgres version is 9.1.6.

[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.175 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 1 0]LOG: database
system was shut down in recovery at 2012-11-22 18:49:22 CST
[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.176 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 2 0]LOG: entering
standby mode
[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.210 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 3 0]LOG: restored log
file "000000010000002800000023" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.213 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 4 0]LOG: redo starts
at 28/23001900
[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.619 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 5 0]LOG: consistent
recovery state reached at 28/23FFFFC8
[ 2012-11-22 18:49:24.620 CST 25736 50ae0333.6488 2 0]LOG: database
system is ready to accept read only connections
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000024': No such file or
directory
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:49.828 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 6 0]LOG: restored log
file "000000010000002800000024" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:50.291 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 7 0]LOG: restored log
file "000000010000002800000025" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:50.759 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 8 0]LOG: restored log
file "000000010000002800000026" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:51.220 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 9 0]LOG: restored log
file "000000010000002800000027" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:51.686 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 10 0]LOG: restored
log file "000000010000002800000028" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:52.145 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 11 0]LOG: restored
log file "000000010000002800000029" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:52.613 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 12 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002A" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:53.073 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 13 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002B" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:53.538 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 14 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002C" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:53.999 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 15 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002D" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:54.459 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 16 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002E" from archive
[ 2012-11-22 18:50:54.920 CST 25744 50ae0334.6490 17 0]LOG: restored
log file "00000001000000280000002F" from archive
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000030': No such file or
directory
cp: cannot stat `/export/t/xlog/000000010000002800000030': No such file or
directory

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>wrote:

> wd wrote:
> > I've try to restore Postgres to a specific time but failed.
> >
> > The recovery.conf as bellow
> > restore_command='cp /t/xlog/%f %p'
> > recovery_target_time='2012-11-22 5:01:09 CST'
> > pause_at_recovery_target=true
> > recovery_target_inclusive=false
> >
> > The basebackup was made at 2012-11-22 3:10 CST, I've copy wal log files
> at 3:00 to 5:10 into /t/xlog,
> > but the recovery will not stop at 2012-11-22 5:01:09。
> >
> > How to do this?
>
> Looks ok.
> What does the server log say during the restore?
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>