Hi, My problem probably is that I need to look at the forest but am hyper-focusing on a maple twig. I have been looking at this for 2 days now And would appreciate some feedback... I am running postgres 8.3.4 on master(mymachine) and slave(hummer). I am attempting to implement warm standby. 1. On mymachine I have the following archive_command: Scp %p postgres@hummer:/var/backups/archlog/%f (scp has been set up with ssh keys so that password Is not required for postgres user) This works fine. Copies wal logs to the /var/backups/archlog directory. 2. Before I attempt pg_standby or some other wait script on hummer I have Used a simple cp command in my recovery.conf file to manually restore My first set of updates: restore_command = 'cp /var/backups/archlog/%f %p' From the doc I am assuming that %f should be the file name(s) of the Wal log in /var/backups/archlog/ to be copied into the /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog directory referenced by %p But %f seems to be referencing current wal log names in /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog. I am getting messages like: cp: cannot stat `/var/backups/archlog/0000000600000003000000D2': No such file or directory 0000000600000003000000D2 is an actual wal log in hummer's /*/*/*/*/pg_xlog directory. How do I get the %f macro to reference the file names in the /var/backups/archlog directory? Once I get past this, then I can play around with pg_standby and get Real warm_standby started. Thanks for your help, Committed to Creating @utoEnthusiasts. Please provide us with your feedback. ________________________________ Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenueT 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732-1824 (Fax) A Division of Dominion Enterprises -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin