Re: error on online backup using pg_basebackup tool

2015-09-03 16:48 GMT-03:00 Gerdan Rezende dos Santos <gerdan@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Martín Marqués <martin@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> El 03/09/15 a las 00:54, Gerdan Rezende dos Santos escribió:
>> >
>> >
>> > In other server with same configuration the proccess not complete too!
>>
>> Add --verbose to the pg_basebackup execution and send over the output
>> error message.
>>
>> I find your procedure confusing, and I'd recommend you *not* to put
>> tablespaces in $PGDTA/pg_tblspc/. That directory is for postgres to put
>> the links to where the actual tablespace is (normally on another
>> partition)
>
> This message on verbose mode: pg_basebackup: directory "/data/pg_tblspc/"
> exists but is not empty

The error message is quite clear, it has to use /data/pg_tblspc/ to
put a tablespace, but that directory is not empty.

Why are you putting tablespaces inside PGDATA? It really makes no
sense. Just leave the objects you have there in the default
tablespace.

Regards,

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