Re: : PostgreSQL Online Backup

Thanks for all your inputs !

Our problem is -

We had mistakenly executed "rsync" on the running PostgreSQL data directory
(production) and we did not run "pg_start_backup()".

Will this harm production ? can this lead to corruption ?

Thanks -

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> wrote:

> On September 26, 2011 05:49:50 AM Venkat Balaji wrote:
> > I tried restoring the backup, after taking the full backup.
> >
> > Below is what i see in the "archive destination".
> >
> > Postgres was asking for "00000001000001930000006F" and i tried to find
> the
> > same and below is what i find...
> >
> > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3.3M Sep 26 02:06
> > 00000001000001930000006F.gz -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 219 Sep 26
> > 02:53
> > 00000001000001930000006F.00328508.backup.gz
> >
> > Why is PG (9.0) putting an extension for the WAL Archive file as
> > > "backup.gz" ??
> >
>
> The archive files are created by your archive_command, as specified in
> postgresql.conf. My guess would be that your archive command runs the files
> through gzip as part of archiving (which is fine).
>
> However, the restore_command you specify in recovery.conf must undo this
> compression. So instead of (for example) 'cp -f "%f" "%p"', it might
> instead
> need to look like 'zcat "%f" > "%p"'.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
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