Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-06-01 Thread Jim Longwill
Jeff Janes, Ok. I checked this further and just found that the pg_xlog area is symlinked to another area.. and indeed that other area was not being rsynced (!) and I thought it was. So, I just fixed this, re-ran it and now it is working. Now I believe I have a stable postgres running on M2.

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-06-01 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Jim Longwill wrote: > I am trying to setup a 2nd, identical, db server (M2) for development and > I've run into a problem with starting up the 2nd Postgres installation. > > Here's what I've done: > 1) did a 'clone' of 1st (production) machine M1 (so both machin

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-05-31 Thread Jim Longwill
Scott, Thanks. If I understand you correctly.. Actually, we did have M1 shutdown when the inital clone was done (some weeks ago). That was done using the VMWare system, not rsync. My main problem is that I don't have WAL archiving setup yet (I've not changed the Postgres defaults on this

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-05-31 Thread Venkata Balaji N
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Jim Longwill wrote: > I am trying to setup a 2nd, identical, db server (M2) for development and > I've run into a problem with starting up the 2nd Postgres installation. > > Here's what I've done: > 1) did a 'clone' of 1st (production) machine M1 (so both machine

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-05-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10:13:14 AM Jim Longwill wrote: > I am trying to setup a 2nd, identical, db server (M2) for development > and I've run into a problem with starting up the 2nd Postgres installation. > > Here's what I've done: >1) did a 'clone' of 1st (production) machine M1 (so both ma

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-05-31 Thread Scott Mead
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jim Longwill wrote: > I am trying to setup a 2nd, identical, db server (M2) for development and > I've run into a problem with starting up the 2nd Postgres installation. > > Here's what I've done: > 1) did a 'clone' of 1st (production) machine M1 (so both machin