Re: [GENERAL] restoring to different architecture with WAL

2013-03-11 Thread Jerry Sievers
Balázs Keresztury writes: > hi, > I have a postgres 8.4 on a Ubuntu box at my workplace, and I plan to > implement continuous?backup with the WAL > technique. This backup is mainly used to provide the usual backup for the > company, but I would also like to use it as > an almost always up-to-da

Re: [GENERAL] restoring to different architecture with WAL

2013-03-11 Thread Albe Laurenz
Balázs Keresztury wrote: > I have a postgres 8.4 on a Ubuntu box at my workplace [...] > I already created the base backup with pg_start_backup and transferred to my > computer, which is > currently running Windows. The problem is that I can't even start up the base > cluster, because > postgres

[GENERAL] restoring to different architecture with WAL

2013-03-07 Thread Balázs Keresztury
hi, I have a postgres 8.4 on a Ubuntu box at my workplace, and I plan to implement continuous backup with the WAL technique. This backup is mainly used to provide the usual backup for the company, but I would also like to use it as an almost always up-to-date copy for my personal computer, mainly f