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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
* Latest Release: "pitrtool-1.3-rc1.tar.gz" :http://files.commandprompt.com/pitrtools/pitrtools-1.3-rc1.tar.gz
* GIT (Unstable):
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$ 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://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools/blob/master/cmd_standby.README
** Archiver documentation: https://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools/blob/master/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/