Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:30:09 -0500
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>
To: Lorraine Mancuso <mancusol1@Scranton.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Recovery question
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:15:37AM -0400, Lorraine Mancuso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I am new to Postgres and had a few questions. We are testing the 
> recovery of a database cluster. We have read the documentation and have 
> been able to recover successfully but we were wondering about the 
> contents of the ARCHIVE_STATUS subdirectory. It appears that it is OK 
> for this directory to be entry during recovery. I just wanted to verify 
> that this is correct.
 
Yes, that's OK. That directory is just used as a means to tell the
archiver what logs it can archive.

>    Also, is there a way to search the archives for all notes on a 
> particular subject?

http://archives.postgresql.org/

>    Is this ADMIN list the appropriate forum for backup and recovery 
> questions?

Yes.
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Jim Nasby                                      decibel@decibel.org
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