Check your hotmail inbox. You have an answer there. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Edson Richter <rich...@simkorp.com.br>wrote:
> I've serious problems with slow link between continents, and twice a week > I have to manually reestablish the slave, by running the following script: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > psql -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('standby_sync', true)" > rsync --progress -a ${PGDATA}/* > r...@server2.mycompany.com:/opt/pgsql/slave1/ --exclude postmaster.pid > --exclude postgresql.conf --exclude pg_hba.conf --exclude pg_log --exclude > pg_xlog > psql -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup()" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Point is not to analyze the connection issues between the continents, but > if there is a way better to synchronize these servers, and avoid to > transport 8Gb of data between them when syncronizing. > The rsync above can be optimized? Both servers are CentOS 5 with OpenVPN > established between them (this is one of the problems: the VPN keep falling > several times a day, and then finally, the sender and receiver process just > vanish in the air - and I had no time to investigate the vanishment). > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > -- > > *Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter* > *SimKorp Informática Ltda* Fone: (51) 3366-7964 Celular: (51)9318-9766/(51) > 8585-0796 [image: Embedded Image] > -- Sergey Konoplev a database and software architect http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp Jabber: gray...@gmail.com Skype: gray-hemp Phone: +79160686204