Re: Can't get a standby built

won't you try repmgr (repmgr.org) is great to clone and setup any Slave

2014-07-23 14:16 GMT-03:00 John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Trying to rebuild my standby server (several times now). I know repeating
> something over and over while expecting a different result is the
> definition of insanity. But, I've always started with:
>
> /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pg_basebackup -h <masters_ip_address> -D
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data -X s -c fast
>
> I then copy my recovery.conf file into the data directory, check that
> everything looks correct, and try to start the standby. The log
> consistently says something like:
>
> LOG: entering standby mode
> LOG: restored log file "00000006.history" from archive
> cp: cannot stat '/mnt/wallogs/archive/000000060000001200000059': No such
> file or directory
> LOG: restored log file "000000060000001200000059" from archive
> FATAL: requested timeline 6 is not a child of this server's history
> DETAIL: Latest checkpoint is at 12/5B000060 on timeline 5, but in the
> history of the requested timeline, the server forked off from that timeline
> at 12/47000000.
> LOG: startup process (PID 60870) exited with exit code 1
> LOG: Aborting startup due to startup process failure
>
> This routine has worked for me in the past and I don't understand why it
> won't work now. This is supposed to be a streaming replication standby
> server. So, do I have the wrong flags for pg_basebackup? Or is something
> else going on?
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> Jay
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