On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Keaton Adams wrote: > OK, > > So what am I doing wrong here? > > Installed PG 8.3.7 on Slave machine > > Restored from last evening's backup from the master DB to make the rsync across the network finish sooner. > > Shut down the PG instance on the slave machine > > Ran a script that does the following: > > select pg_start_backup('Master_Backup'); > rsync -rvlpogtz ${masterdb}/* ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host}:${slavedb} > select pg_stop_backup(); > ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slavedb}/postmaster.pid 2>/dev/null > ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slave_backup_path}/0* 2>/dev/null > ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} ${PSQL_BIN}/pg_ctl -D ${slavedb} -l logfile start Is ${slave_backup_path} your archive directory? Why are you deleting all of you archives there? Erik Jones, Database Administrator Engine Yard Support, Scalability, Reliability 866.518.9273 x 260 Location: US/Pacific IRC: mage2k -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general