Rick Dicaire wrote: >> /staging/9.1/main/pg_xlog is really archive directory? restore_command >> should be set to the command which copies the archived WAL files from >> the archive area. > > Yes. This is the archive directory. But according to what you wrote before you start the server with -D /staging/9.1/main. That means that /staging/9.1/main/pg_xlog contains the active WAL files, right? So the restore_command 'cp /staging/9.1/main/pg_xlog/%f "%p"' would just try to cp the files onto themselves, right? The WAL archive directory must be different from the active WAL directory. Check if that's your problem! Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin