Hi, My production is running PostgreSQL v8.2.3 on CentOS release 5.2 (Final). As part of our routine, we just wanted to make sure and practice once in a while, whether PITR recovery process is performed without fail. When I started the recovery process, after sometime, I see the following error in the serverlog. This error was thrown after processing WAL archives for almost 2 and half hour. I couldn't able to understand what is wrong by reading this error statements, since it is cryptic technically. Can experts help me in this regard? How do I proceed further from here? I do have enough space in both my data/ and /mnt/pitr/walarchive/ directories. I don't think this is because of scarcity in disk space. My base backup date: Aug03, 2009 recovery.conf =========== restore_command='cp /mnt/pitr/walarchive/%f "%p"' recovery_target_time='2010-06-08 09:10' recovery_target_inclusive='true' ERROR ====== []:2010-06-09 04:43:27 EDTLOG: restored log file "00000001000000130000003D" from archive []:2010-06-09 04:43:29 EDTLOG: restored log file "00000001000000130000003E" from archive []:2010-06-09 04:43:30 EDTLOG: restored log file "00000001000000130000003F" from archive []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTLOG: could not fsync segment 0 of relation 1663/169462/252056: No such file or directory []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTCONTEXT: xlog redo checkpoint: redo 13/3FE33EB0; undo 0/0; tli 1; xid 0/331456443; oid 256783; multi 337; offset 676; online []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTFATAL: storage sync failed on magnetic disk: No such file or directory []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTCONTEXT: xlog redo checkpoint: redo 13/3FE33EB0; undo 0/0; tli 1; xid 0/331456443; oid 256783; multi 337; offset 676; online []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTLOG: startup process (PID 22855) exited with exit code 1 []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTLOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure []:2010-06-09 04:44:59 EDTLOG: logger shutting down Regards, Gnanam -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin