Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-15 Thread Andy Shellam
Regarding the following questions: A few more questions in this thread: 1. With the wait-for-next-file script scenario, what happens with recovery.conf? Does it ever become recovery.done? What happens in the event of needing to recover? Does the script need a trigger to say, Okay,

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 16:41 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:03 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:38 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:03 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:38 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: Ideally, I'd be able to take a base backup of a production system, copy

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-04 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:03 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:38 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: Ideally, I'd be able to take a base backup of a production system, copy it to a remote system, which is also the

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Andy Shellam
will not be propagated back to your master. Regards Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas F. O'Connell Sent: Thursday, 02 March, 2006 10:39 PM To: PGSQL Admin Subject: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution I'm administering a database

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:38 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: I'm administering a database that is not immediately a good candidate for replication via Slony. As an interim solution, I'd like to give PITR a shot. The primary goal is to have a failover scenario that allows for recovery

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:23 +, Andy Shellam wrote: Then you would have to find a method of telling the script that you wish to bring the database up and it will exit and allow PGSQL to come up at the current state with the latest data. Replication sounds like a better option If you want

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Mar 3, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:38 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: Ideally, I'd be able to take a base backup of a production system, copy it to a remote system, which is also the repository for segment files generated by archive_command, and

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:23 +, Andy Shellam wrote: Then you would have to find a method of telling the script that you wish to bring the database up and it will exit and allow PGSQL to come up at the current state with the latest data.

Re: [ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-03 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:23:57AM -, Andy Shellam wrote: Hi Thomas, I've been trying to get a similar system up and running, and I have to say one point in the documentation isn't particularly clear. It says that you can string together an almost endless supply of WAL logs to replay

[ADMIN] PITR as Online Backup Solution

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I'm administering a database that is not immediately a good candidate for replication via Slony. As an interim solution, I'd like to give PITR a shot. The primary goal is to have a failover scenario that allows for recovery within a window that's much smaller than it would be if the only