On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:17 -0400, George Wilk wrote: > archive_command = 'touch /var/lib/pgsql/bkp/myfile' Presumably you understand that an archive_command like the above is not ever going to do any archiving? set log_min_messages = DEBUG1 if you want to see the archive messages. But it seems like you should be able to do ls -l /var/lib/pgsql/bkp/myfile to check your archive_command has succeeded, using your example -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com