Re: PITR on Win32 - Archive and Restore

On 9 Aug 2004 at 20:12, markir@coretech.co.nz wrote:

> I *think* I have tried that one, but checked anyway:
>
> The result is :
>
> LOG:  archive command ""copy
> "c:/databases/pgdata/pg_xlog/000000010000000000000000"
> "c:/databases/pgarchive/000000010000000000000000""" failed: return code 1
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> I think this led us on to more bizzare pastures...
>

The problem here is that "Copy" is not an external command (as it
says), but it is built into the "shell" (cmd.exe). To use copy you would
have to run cmd.exe and make the copy command the first parameter
after the /C switch.

It's much better to use "xcopy" anyway, which *is* an external command
and can be run with a string similar to the one use are using now.

Cheers,
Gary.