Dear all,
I have been playing with PITR on version 8.3 so far, but I need to get it
working on version 8.2.
What is the difference between:
archive_command = on (is this command for 8.2?)
archive_mode = on (This one is for 8.3!)
I need to enable 'archive_mode = on', restart postgres, before I can do the
base backup, is that correct?
In order to bring the standby online I need a trigger file, something like:
can I call the trigger file whatever I want? for example;
'/var/log/postgres/postgresql.8.2.trigger'
Postgres 8.2 config
Master:
Postgresql.conf
archive_command = on
archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/pitr/%f </dev/null'
archive_timeout = 60
# mkdir /mnt/pitr
# chown postgres: /mnt/pitr (this will be an NFS mount point)
# mount -t nfs fnsserver01:/pitr /mnt/pitr
# service postgresql restart
# su - postgres
# psql -U postgres
SELECT pg_start_backup('pitr_backup');
\q
# Tar -cvf pg_data.tar /usr/loca/pgsql/data
# Psql -U postgres
SELECT pg_stop_backup();
# cp pg_data.tar /mnt/pitr
Postgres 8.2 config
StandBy:
# Compile pg_standy from the contrib/ folder
# cd /usr/local/pgsql
# rm -rf data/
# tar -xvf /mnt/pitr/pg_data.tar
# chown -R postgres: data
# cd data/
# cd pg_xlog/ - delete the content
# cd ../data
# touch recovery.conf
restore_command = 'pg_standby -l -d -s 2 -t /var/log/postgres/
postgresql.8.2.trigger /mnt/pitr/ %f %p %r 2>>pitr_standby.log'
Postgresql.conf
#archive_command = off - disabled and commented out
#archive_command = '' - disabled and command removed
# archive_timeout = 60 - disabled
Is this correct, am I missing something or anything here isn't correct?
If anyone could give me some light with this it would be very much appreciated.
Thank you very much
Renato
Renato Oliveira
Systems Administrator
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