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}/* ${slave_dbus...@${slave_host}:${slavedb}
> select pg_stop_backup();
> ssh ${slave_dbus...@${slave_host} rm ${slavedb}/postmaster.pid 2>/dev/null
> ssh ${slave_dbus...@${slave_host} rm ${slave_backup_path}/0* 2>/dev/null 
> ssh ${slave_dbus...@${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
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