You're not by chance doing a filesystem copy into /b01/pgdata/archive/db1? On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:15:01AM -0800, Subbiah, Stalin wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday, we'd archiver problems in copying archived wal files from > pg_xlog to archive destination at the end of full hotbackup. Below are > the errors from server logs. > What makes me to wonder is that why does archiver tries to copy > "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" again when it's already been > archived. As soon I removed "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" > from archive location, then archiver was happy to copy again and moved > on to archiving 000000010000000800000074 etc. > > 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archived transaction log file > "000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" > 2006-11-07 00:35:23 CST LOG: archive command "test ! -f > /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup && cp > pg_xlog/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup > /b01/pgdata/archive/db1/000000010000000800000074.0066C9C0.backup" > failed: return code 256 > > Any idea what may be going on here. > > Thanks, > Stalin > > PG814, RH4.0 > > > -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)