I need to test and create a procedure to restore databases. I followed the steps based on the site, but I couldn't finish succesfully. I did: 1. Put the database on Backup Mode and copy datafiles. /pg/bin/psql cresoldev -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('/pg/backup/');" tar -cvf /pg/backup/bk_base.tar /pg/data/base/* /pg/bin/psql cresoldev -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup();" File .conf: archive_command = 'cp -i %p /pg/backup/xlog/%f </dev/null' 2. Created a new table and populated with data, to simulate the recovery: create table test ( aa integer, bb varchar(50) ); insert into test values (1,'aaa'); ... insert into test values (5,'aaa'); Data inserted successfully!!! 3. Shutdown on database; Last log transactions copied to the directory archived log; cp /pg/data/pg_xlog/* /pg/backup/xlog/ 4. Configuring the recovery.conf file: restore_command = 'cp /pg/backup/xlog/%f %p' recovery_target_time = '2006-07-06 16:33:52 BRT' 5. Simulate the lost directories, deleting... : rm -r /pg/data/base/* 6. Recreating the directories exploding the tar file: tar -xvf bkp_base... .tar 7. Starting the database for applying the log transactions. Supposing recove the table "test" located on log transactions. LOG: database system was shut down at 2006-07-06 16:47:18 BRT LOG: starting archive recovery LOG: restore_command = "cp /pg/backup/xlog/%f %p" LOG: recovery_target_time = 2006-07-06 16:33:52-03 cp: cannot stat `/pg/backup/xlog/00000001.history': No such file or directory LOG: restored log file "000000010000000000000001" from archive LOG: record with zero length at 0/1122880 LOG: invalid primary checkpoint record LOG: restored log file "000000010000000000000001" from archive LOG: record with zero length at 0/1122844 LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record LOG: startup process (PID 3989) was terminated by signal 6 LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure 8. There was an error and the table was lost. What's the procedure that I doing mistakes???????? Thanks for helping me, in advance. Regards Alexander _______________________________________________________ Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail: 1GB de espaço, alertas de e-mail no celular e anti-spam realmente eficaz. http://mail.yahoo.com.br/