turn pitr 'on' on PostgreSQL 8.2 - pg_standby

Dear all,

I have been playing with PITR on version 8.3 so far, but I need to get it working on version 8.2.

What is the difference between:

archive_command = on  (is this command for 8.2?)

archive_mode =    on  (This one is for 8.3!)

I need to enable ‘archive_mode = on’, restart postgres, before I can do the base backup, is that correct?

In order to bring the standby online I need a trigger file, something like:

can I call the trigger file whatever I want? for example; ‘/var/log/postgres/postgresql.8.2.trigger’

Postgres 8.2 config

Master:

        Postgresql.conf

               archive_command = on 

               archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/pitr/%f </dev/null'

               archive_timeout = 60

        # mkdir /mnt/pitr

        # chown postgres: /mnt/pitr (this will be an NFS mount point)

        # mount –t nfs fnsserver01:/pitr /mnt/pitr

        # service postgresql restart

        # su – postgres

        # psql –U postgres

                SELECT pg_start_backup('pitr_backup');

                \q

        # Tar –cvf pg_data.tar /usr/loca/pgsql/data

        # Psql –U postgres

                SELECT pg_stop_backup();

        # cp pg_data.tar /mnt/pitr

Postgres 8.2 config

StandBy:

        # Compile pg_standy from the contrib/ folder

        # cd /usr/local/pgsql

        # rm –rf data/

        # tar –xvf /mnt/pitr/pg_data.tar

        # chown –R postgres: data

        # cd data/

        # cd pg_xlog/ - delete the content

        # cd ../data

        # touch recovery.conf

               restore_command = 'pg_standby -l -d -s 2 -t /var/log/postgres/ postgresql.8.2.trigger /mnt/pitr/ %f %p %r 2>>pitr_standby.log'

        Postgresql.conf

               #archive_command = off  - disabled and commented out

               #archive_command = '' – disabled and command removed

               # archive_timeout = 60 – disabled

Is this correct, am I missing something or anything here isn’t correct?    

If anyone could give me some light with this it would be very much appreciated.

Thank you very much

Renato