pitrtools

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 (05/21/13): "pitrtools-1.3.tar.bz2":https://files.commandprompt.com/pitrtools/pitrtools-1.3.tar.bz2 

* GIT (Unstable):

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$ git clone git://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools.git

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h2. 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

** PITRtools how-to: [[How To Configure Warm Standby with PITRTools]]

** 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 .

** Git Repo: https://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools

h2. 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/