>> ... > > That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish, however I tried to do a base > backup every day and have archives during the day. This worked fine in > testing, however when I set it up and attached the Java front-ends to the > DB, there were *so* many archive files written to disk that the "rotate" job > that runs every morning to do a new base backup failed. It failed because > there were thousands upon thousands of archive files in the archive dir and > it couldn't delete them. Why this happened I am not sure, I thought setting > archive_timeout = 30 would only create 1 archive file every 30 minutes, but > I was wrong. If you've got archive_timeout = 30 that means 30 seconds, not 30 minutes. -- Ian. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
