Re: WAL shipping question

> Im trying to play a bit with log shipping between 2 servers primary
and standby. These servers are running versions 8.3betat3. I had set up
continuous archiving at the primary server. The manuals' example of
archive_command is
> archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/server/archivedir/%f </dev/null'
>
> This basically archives the data in the primary server
itself...right!!!
> But how can I set up continuous archiving from primary to a directory
(WAL archive directory)
> on the stand-by server ?

>>a. Mount the remote directory via NFS/SMBFS/...
>>b. Use a remote copy, e.g. scp, FTP...

Thanks...
I tried this command to both copy in the primary server and scp to standby server.

archive_command = 'cp -i "%p" .../archivedir/"%f" &&
scp -B "%p".../archivedir/"%f" "%p" user(at)172(dot)31(dot)0(dot)21:/....archivedir/"%f"'

cp works but scp doesnt work. Is it becoz scp generally asks for password. I can do scp or ssh without password authentication but Im not sure if it is safe to do that.

What is the alternative for getting this done?

Thanks
sharmila

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