Re: [ADMIN] Online backups are failing

2009-01-20 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:21 -0500, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote: > First we saw this problem on our postgres 8.2.7 database where we had > the "stats_block_level" parameter turned on in postgresql.conf file. > After I turned off stats_block_level parameter, our backups did not > fail. Seems lik

Re: [ADMIN] Online backups are failing

2009-01-20 Thread Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67
Forgot to mention one thing. Even though in the online backup script $? did not return zero and I got the error "data dir copy failed" but the PGDATA directory did get copied fine. The size of the PGDATA directory and the copied PGDATA dir were same. Here is the snippet of our online backup scrip

Re: [ADMIN] Online backups are failing

2009-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:21 -0500, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote: > Hi, > > We are running into a problem where our online backups are failing > randomly. We are using postgres 8.2.7 and we are seeing this problem in > both Solaris and Linux platforms. Our online backup script copies the > PGDATA

[ADMIN] Online backups are failing

2009-01-20 Thread Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67
Hi, We are running into a problem where our online backups are failing randomly. We are using postgres 8.2.7 and we are seeing this problem in both Solaris and Linux platforms. Our online backup script copies the PGDATA dir with the command "cp -r -P". First we saw this problem on our postgres 8

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL monitoring

2009-01-20 Thread Marcelo Martins
Cool, I have actually been trying out Zabbiz 1.6.x now since I like it better than munin. Thanks, Marcelo PostgreSQL DBA Linux/Solaris System Administrator On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Jaume Sabater wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Marcelo Martins > wrote: Do you guys have any sugge

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL monitoring

2009-01-20 Thread Cédric Villemain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johann Spies a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: >> Note that you have some plugins : >> >> * http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/ (plugin for nagios and others) >> * http://muninpgplugins.projects.postgresql.o

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL monitoring

2009-01-20 Thread ashok raj
RRD tool can used for drawing graphs by fetching the statics from DB servers and plotting graphs store it an image file and embedded it on the HTML page to look it nice . 2009/1/20 Johann Spies > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: > > Note that you have some plug

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL monitoring

2009-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Cédric Villemain wrote: > Note that you have some plugins : > > * http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/ (plugin for nagios and others) > * http://muninpgplugins.projects.postgresql.org/ (for munin) > Thanks for these links. I am trying out the muninpgplu