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From: Viktor <viktor@okservers.eu>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Point in time recovery + replication
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:25:45 +0300
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Hei,

I think, that it can be done just via RSYNC with stopped both of databases:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/How_to_setup_Postgresql_9.1_Streaming_Replication_Debia...

Just like in the "*Getting it working*" part.


On 5/9/2013 6:45 PM, German Becker wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a primary  / hot standby scenario with streaming replication. 
> Postgres version is 9.1.8.
>
> A full backup is made nightly on the primary and copied to the 
> secondary, just for backup purposes, the replication is never stopped 
> /restarted.
>
> Supose that for a reason I need to restore the primary to a point in 
> time, let's say just after the last backup. I've done this by:
>
> 1) stoping de databese
> 2)restoring the backup
> 3) creatng a recovery.conf where I specified a recovery_target accordingly
> 4) start the database
>
> This works fine on the primary. The quesion is how do I restart the 
> replication on the secondary, on the new timeline?
>
> I tried to restore the same backup on the secondary and starting 
> the continuous recovery, but it starts on the previous timeline.
> I also tried to set the recovery_target_timeline in the secondary to 
> the new timeline, but I get an error. Do I need to get a new copy of 
> the primary to continue the replication?

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