"Dhaval Shah" <dhaval.shah.m@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What am I doing wrong? Lying to the server. If you don't have the requested file, return failure, don't invent something. There are a number of cases where the recovery process asks for files that are quite likely not to exist. > If I indicate that I do not have the concerned file by returning error > code 1, I get the following error in the log: This may indicate that you have an incomplete backup :-(. It's hard to tell from this much info though. What is in pg_control (use pg_controldata to dump) and what is in the backup_label file (that's plain text)? What WAL segment files do you actually have? regards, tom lane