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= 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.
== Getting PITRTools ==
* The current method of retrieving PITRTools is via SVN:
* Stable:
{{{
svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/branches/1.2
}}}
* Trunk (dev/unstable):
{{{
svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/trunk
}}}
=== 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 [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ SCALE] and [http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ PostgreSQL Conference] that can be found at [http://www.slideshare.net/linuxpoet/pitr-made-easy-1265196 [http://www.slideshare.net/linuxpoet/pitr-made-easy-1055148 SlideShare] .
=== Getting Help ===
* There is consulting available from [http://www.commandprompt.com Command Prompt]
* There is a very low traffic [http://lists.commandprompt.com/mailman/listinfo/pitrtools/ mailing list]