Okay, thanks. It' seems you were right! Now I have fixed the issue (it was an
ssh key).
So I started a:
SELECT pg_start_backup('backup', true);
And when done, I executed a:
sudo -u postgres rsync -av --exclude postmaster.pid --exclude pg_xlog
/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main/ postgres@192.168.0.2:/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main/
Then I tried to finish off the backup by doing a:
SELECT pg_stop_backup();
But It keeps on telling me:
WARNING: pg_stop_backup still waiting for all required WAL segments to be
archived (480 seconds elapsed)
HINT: Check that your archive_command is executing properly. pg_stop_backup
can be canceled safely, but the database backup will not be usable without all
the WAL segments.
And I could see in the log that it's some kind of permission issue. So I
canceled it, and started the streaming replication on my slave, and it seems to
work fine. However the pg_xlog dir on the master is still HUGE 153G - so how
can I get this mess sorted, and cleaned up that directory?
Den 18/03/2013 kl. 10.26 skrev Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net>:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt
> <nielskrist...@autouncle.com> wrote:
>> After installing my new server I just discovered something that doesn't seem
>> right:
>>
>> sudo du -h /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main
>
> <snip>
>
>> As you can see the pg_xlog folder is 202G, which is more than my entire
>> database - this seems wrong to me, however I have no clue why this would
>> happen.
>
> My first guess would be that your archive_command is failing - so
> check your logs for that. If that command fails, no xlog files will
> ever be rotated (since it would invalidate your backups).
>
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