Received: from makus.postgresql.org (makus.postgresql.org [98.129.198.125]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2347E89E96F for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:09:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from kerneljack.com ([89.16.173.229]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RxiM6-0006yc-7Z for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:23 +0000 Received: from [217.33.138.50] (helo=telnic-19.telnic.local) by kerneljack.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RxiLp-00075n-HK for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:05 +0000 Message-ID: <4F3BE6AF.5070102@kerneljack.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:03 +0000 From: Khusro Jaleel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Backing up a replication set every 30 mins References: <4F3BA826.9000708@kerneljack.com> <4F3BBBA6.1040707@kerneljack.com> <4F3B715102000025000455FB@gw.wicourts.gov> <4F3BCCA2.1030102@kerneljack.com> <4F3B7D5F0200002500045603@gw.wicourts.gov> <4F3BD7CC.10407@kerneljack.com> <4F3B87460200002500045612@gw.wicourts.gov> In-Reply-To: <4F3B87460200002500045612@gw.wicourts.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201202/70 X-Sequence-Number: 39130 On 02/15/2012 04:21 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Khusro Jaleel wrote: > >> I thought setting archive_timeout = 30 would only create 1 >> archive file every 30 minutes, but I was wrong. > > The default unit of measure is seconds, so the above would create at > least two WAL files per minute. Try setting to '30min'. > > -Kevin > For crying out loud! I did specify "30min" on other machines but put in "30" on this one, I guess it was a typo! I hope it was this simple and it works now! :-) Thanks everyone for your help.