Hmm. I recently installed 8.2.4 out of ports (FreeBSD) and didn't see that file in contrib. I'd like to take a look at it. Kenji On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:18:12AM +0300, Mikko Partio wrote: > > > On 8/24/07, Kenji Morishige <kenjim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've got 2 identical servers configured exactly the same way, except for > some > minor differences for the WAL logging directories. I have both machines > set up > as a NFS server and client, so that the WAL archive gets written out to the > local filesystem of the backup machine depending on which role the machine > is > currently configured for. > > I've been able to get the backup server syncronized by using the > recover.conf > file as described in the documenation, but I can't seem to write a generic > shell > script that will keep the warm-backup in a continously syncronizing > mode. It > always stops and renames the recover.conf to recover.done. > > I've tried to write an alternate restore command as follows: > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > if [ -e /export/raid/pgsql/recovery.stop ]; then > exit 1 > fi > if [ -e $1 ]; then > `/bin/cp $1 $2` > fi > sleep 5 > exit 0 > > The documenation says that it should return 0 only if it is > successfull. My > understanding is that the recovery script should continuously try to copy > the > archived data to the WAL directory so that the WARM-BACKUP server can > syncronize. I'd like to have the WARM-BACKUP always be only a few minutes > behind in syncronization from the PRIMARY without human intervention. I can > write a cronjob to clean out the WAL archive directory accordingly. > > I would be extremely gratefull for any assistance from anyone with a > similar > configuration. I must be confused by how the restore_command is supposed > to > work. > > > > > Why don't you just use pg_standby from contrib. > > Regards > > MP ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq