I have a process for PITR backups running nicely. I'm pretty amazed by the smoothness of it all! Now I'm looking at the retrieval part, and I have something I'm looking for clarification on. The documentation say that a recovery.conf file is needed for the restore. My tests indicate that I can just restore the backup, copy over the latest WAL files and launch postgres. Is that ok? Can I just use this way? I could create the recovery file and have it copy the files, but as the second machine I am restoring into can always have the DB reloaded, I wonder if it isn't easier just to copy the files. I actually rsync my backup directory and my WAL archive directories, into the second machine. Bye, Guy. -- Family management on rails: http://www.famundo.com - coming soon! My development related blog: http://devblog.famundo.com
