Apologies - I did not mention complete details of PG and OS -
Postgres 9.0.1 Production Operating System version where Postgres is running is as follows - Linux *prod-server* 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 07:12:06 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The server version where I restored the production backup is as follows - Linux *backup-server* 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Sun May 2 04:42:25 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I read some where that, Postgres datafiles are not architecture independent. Please help ! Thanks Venkat On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Venkat Balaji <venkat.bal...@verse.in>wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am testing the Online Backups of our production databases ( this is part > of our disaster recovery plan ). > > After restoring the Online Backup, we tried to bring up the cluster and > ended up with the following error - > > 2011-09-23 07:29:04 CDT [24092]: [1-1] FATAL: incorrect checksum in > control file. > > Does this message mean, the Online Backup is corrupted or invalid ? > > Normally, we get recovery related error messages. This is the first time we > are facing a problem like this. > > Please help as this is critical for us. > > Thanks > Venkat >