[ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-12 Thread pedro noticioso
hi there I lightly read this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html and am interested in creating an incremental backup of WAL files, but my database is small so each of this WAL files must be almost identical to the previous one. Is there a way to incrementally backup so t

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-14 Thread pedro noticioso
lready taken a base or level 0 backup). > > On Monday 12 February 2007 13:42, pedro noticioso > wrote: > > hi there > > > > I lightly read this > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html > > > > and am interested in creating

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-15 Thread pedro noticioso
rtain amount of time that you can configure on > postgresql.conf. So you can > store WAL files, say, every 30 or 60 minutes, > regardless of how big it is. > This way maybe the DB speed won't be seriuosly > affected. > > Small question, though. How are you taking

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-15 Thread pedro noticioso
by setting an appropiate > > archive_command in your > > postgresql.conf (probably something copying the > WAL > > files somewhere you store > > them). You MUST restart postgres after changing > this > > file. > > > > About the WAL file size: sorry, i don

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-16 Thread pedro noticioso
Muchas gracia a todos los queme han respondido hasta ahora Thanks to all who have repplied so far Ok entonces regreso y reinicio al procedimiento completo para tratar de atinarle a lo que puede ser el problema. Ok so I go back and retry the complete procedure to try to pin point what might be the

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-18 Thread pedro noticioso
d at 2007-02-16 10:10:27 CST LOG: could not read from log file 0, segment 5 at offset 2416640: No such file or directory LOG: invalid checkpoint record PANIC: could not locate required checkpoint record HINT: If you are not restoring from a backup, try removing the file "/usr/local/pgsql/

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-27 Thread pedro noticioso
007-02-16 10:10:27 CST LOG: could not read from log file 0, segment 5 at offset 2416640: No such file or directory LOG: invalid checkpoint record PANIC: could not locate required checkpoint record HINT: If you are not restoring from a backup, try removing the file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/back