Re: : Checksum ERROR when restoring Online Backup

Thanks Richard !

I realized that, I was restoring on an 32 bit server.

Regards,
Venkat

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:

> On 23/09/11 13:53, Venkat Balaji wrote:
>
>> Linux *prod-server* 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 07:12:06 EDT
>> 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> The server version where I restored the production backup is as follows -
>> Linux *backup-server* 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Sun May 2 04:42:25
>> EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I read some where that, Postgres datafiles are not architecture
>> independent.
>>
>
> They (the WAL files) are not, and it looks like you're trying to restore a
> 64-bit version onto a 32-bit server. That's not going to work. A
> pg_dump/restore works of course, and if you need replication then Slony can
> handle this.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>