Re: Desaster Recovery from failover using SLONY-I

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:57:55PM +0200, Peter Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a node is dropped due to failover, it takes days to recover the
> database, because it is build up from scratch.

This is from Slony? You know that that's a built-in limitation, and
that the preferred method is switchover, right? Failover should be
the last result. (Also, you'll get better results if you discuss
this on the slony list.)

> We would prefer another approach:
> Make an Online Backup of the Provider database.
> The provider database continues writing new data and the Slony-Logs.
> The Backup is restored to the failed system.
> The slony cluster is dropped from the restored system
> and the system is defined as Slony-subscriber.
> How can we setup this system to recover from the status of the backup time?

Slony knows nothing about the WAL-archiving backup method. When you
subscribe a datbaase, it automatically drops and recreates the target
from scratch. There has been some discussion of how to improve that,
but AFAIK nobody has written the support for it yet.

A

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