To clean up from a prior run.
Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com> wrote:
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}/* ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host}:${slavedb}
> select pg_stop_backup();
> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slavedb}/postmaster.pid 2>/dev/null
> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${slave_host} rm ${slave_backup_path}/0* 2>/dev/null
> ssh ${slave_dbuser}@${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?
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