Thanks! it worked! :-) Den 18/03/2013 kl. 15.38 skrev Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Niels Kristian Schjødt > <nielskristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Okay, thanks. It' seems you were right! Now I have fixed the issue (it was an ssh key). >> So I started a: >> SELECT pg_start_backup('backup', true); >> >> And when done, I executed a: >> sudo -u postgres rsync -av --exclude postmaster.pid --exclude pg_xlog /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main/ postgres@192.168.0.2:/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main/ >> >> Then I tried to finish off the backup by doing a: >> SELECT pg_stop_backup(); >> >> But It keeps on telling me: >> WARNING: pg_stop_backup still waiting for all required WAL segments to be archived (480 seconds elapsed) >> HINT: Check that your archive_command is executing properly. pg_stop_backup can be canceled safely, but the database backup will not be usable without all the WAL segments. >> >> And I could see in the log that it's some kind of permission issue. So I canceled it, and started the streaming replication on my slave, and it seems to work fine. However the pg_xlog dir on the master is still HUGE 153G - so how can I get this mess sorted, and cleaned up that directory? > > Once you have your archive_command working, it will transfer all your > xlog to the archive. Once it is, the xlog directory should > automatically clean up fairly quickly. > > If you still have a permissions problem with the archive, you > obviously need to fix that first. > > If you don't care about your archive you could set your > archive_command to e.g. /bin/true, and that will make it pretend it > has archived the files, and should clean it up quicker. But that will > mean you have no valid archive and thus no valid backups, until you > start over froma new base. > > > -- > Magnus Hagander > Me: http://www.hagander.net/ > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance