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h1. Welcome to Pitrtools Wiki 


 PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to [[PostgreSQL]]. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license. 


 h2. Getting PITRTools 


 * Stable tarball: "pitrtools-1.2.tar.gz":http://files.commandprompt.com/pitrtools/pitrtools-1.2.tar.bz2  
 * GIT: SVN: 
 *** Stable: 
 <pre> 
    svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/branches/1.2 
 </pre> 
 *** Trunk (dev/unstable): 
 <pre> 
    svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/trunk 
 </pre> 

 Or, PITRTools is now available on "GitHub":http://github.com, via: 
 <pre> 
 $ git clone git://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools.git 
 </pre> 


 h3. Documentation 

 
 The documentation is reference documentation. You will need to be at least familiar with how [[PostgreSQL]] and log shipping works. 

 ** Standby documentation: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/browser/branches/1.2/cmd_standby.README 
 ** Archiver documentation: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/browser/branches/1.2/cmd_archiver.README 
 ** There is a talk that was given at "SCALE":http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ and "PostgreSQL Conference":http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ that can be found at "SlideShare":http://www.slideshare.net/linuxpoet/pitr-made-easy-1265196 . 


 h3. Getting Help 


 * There is consulting available from "Command Prompt":http://www.commandprompt.com 
 * There is a very low traffic "mailing list":http://lists.commandprompt.com/mailman/listinfo/pitrtools/