Re: [ADMIN] Error when trying to do a recovery

2005-03-04 Thread Warren Little
Tom, Thanks for your response.  I found an old thread you had responded to a while back regarding 32 vs 64 bit architectures (which I have) and compatibility issues. So until I upgrade my backup/test box looks like I'm stuck using pg_dump :( Thanks On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 01:22 -0500, Tom L

Re: [ADMIN] Error when trying to do a recovery

2005-03-01 Thread Tom Lane
Warren Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I start postgres (pg_ctl -l logfile start). The following text is > all that exists in the logfile: > <2005-03-01 14:21:43 MST>FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file > What control file is it referring to? $PGDATA/global/pg_control. I think t

[ADMIN] Error when trying to do a recovery

2005-03-01 Thread Warren Little
Hello, I trying to do a restore using from the online backups. I have restored the data backup (untarred) and removed all files from the pg_xlog directory. I also deleted and recreated the archive_status directory under pg_xlog. I created the recovery.conf file with only the restore_command in i