(Bringing back on list) >>>> Sad to say, I did not see what I was looking for -- which is a retry >>>> failing to process, ugly messages aside. >>>> >>>> If you can reproduce this defect from the same base backup >>>> in-triplicate, it's almost certainly corruption of some kind. If not >>>> -- e.g. sometimes it works -- it could be a WAL-E bug on the fetch side. >>>> >>>> I'd be very grateful if you'd give it a try. I haven't been able to >>>> produce this defect on restoring a base backup myself. >>>> >>> >>> I've got a restore running currently from a new base backup which just >>> finished. I'll let that finish, and fully recover (hopefully!) just to >>> satisfy myself that this setup is basically working; after that, I'll try >>> again from the failing base backup. It takes quite a while to do all this, >>> so don't worry if you don't hear from me for a short while! >> >> I'm grateful to hear anything at any time. WAL-E has grown up into >> long-haul software -- it'll still be here if you can find the time later. >> >> Well - unfortunately my second attempt with a newer base backup also failed. >> This is a bit of a concern now - I'd like to dig deeper into this. Should we >> take this back on the list? > > Sure. Pity to say, the more times this fails, particularly with fresh > base backups, the more likely it seems to me you've been hit by > corruption. WAL-E has a bit too much empirical reliability to be > easily implicated in successive defects on upload or download sides.
Right, that's what I was afraid of. I'm currently restoring from a pg_dump just to check that we can recover. I suspect the next step will be to take another server, restore a pg_dump'd backup on it, and try a WAL-E setup on that one. If that works, then I expect we'll have to dump and reload our production server. Frustrating, as this all worked smoothly in our test environments! That's life, I guess... Thanks, Dan -- Dan Fairs | [email protected] | @danfairs | secondsync.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wal-e" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
