turn pitr 'on' on PostgreSQL 8.2 - pg_standby

Dear all,

I have been playing with PITR on version 8.3 so far, but I need to get it working on version 8.2.

What is the difference between:

archive_command = on (is this command for 8.2?)
archive_mode = on (This one is for 8.3!)

I need to enable 'archive_mode = on', restart postgres, before I can do the base backup, is that correct?

In order to bring the standby online I need a trigger file, something like:
can I call the trigger file whatever I want? for example; '/var/log/postgres/postgresql.8.2.trigger'

Postgres 8.2 config

Master:
Postgresql.conf
archive_command = on
archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/pitr/%f </dev/null'
archive_timeout = 60

# mkdir /mnt/pitr
# chown postgres: /mnt/pitr (this will be an NFS mount point)
# mount -t nfs fnsserver01:/pitr /mnt/pitr
# service postgresql restart
# su - postgres
# psql -U postgres
SELECT pg_start_backup('pitr_backup');
\q
# Tar -cvf pg_data.tar /usr/loca/pgsql/data
# Psql -U postgres
SELECT pg_stop_backup();
# cp pg_data.tar /mnt/pitr

Postgres 8.2 config

StandBy:
# Compile pg_standy from the contrib/ folder
# cd /usr/local/pgsql
# rm -rf data/
# tar -xvf /mnt/pitr/pg_data.tar
# chown -R postgres: data
# cd data/
# cd pg_xlog/ - delete the content
# cd ../data
# touch recovery.conf
restore_command = 'pg_standby -l -d -s 2 -t /var/log/postgres/ postgresql.8.2.trigger /mnt/pitr/ %f %p %r 2>>pitr_standby.log'

Postgresql.conf
#archive_command = off - disabled and commented out
#archive_command = '' - disabled and command removed
# archive_timeout = 60 - disabled

Is this correct, am I missing something or anything here isn't correct?

If anyone could give me some light with this it would be very much appreciated.

Thank you very much

Renato

Renato Oliveira
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