< 2014-01-02 10:36:07.375 EST >LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2013-12-31 13:09:55 EST < 2014-01-02 10:36:07.377 EST >LOG: creating missing WAL directory "pg_xlog/archive_status" < 2014-01-02 10:36:07.379 EST >LOG: starting point-in-time recovery to 2013-12-31 13:15:00-05 scp: /bkp/wal/f%: No such file or directory gzip: /bkp/wal/0000000200000000000000F7: unknown suffix -- ignored gzip: /bkp/wal/00000002.history: unknown suffix -- ignored < 2014-01-02 10:36:18.924 EST >LOG: invalid checkpoint record < 2014-01-02 10:36:18.924 EST >FATAL: could not locate required checkpoint record < 2014-01-02 10:36:18.924 EST >HINT: If you are not restoring from a backup, try removing the file "/var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data/backup_label". < 2014-01-02 10:36:18.930 EST >LOG: startup process (PID 30246) exited with exit code 1 < 2014-01-02 10:36:18.930 EST >LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
Here is the content of backup_server:/bkp/wal/ after I run the recovery.00000002.history was 00000002.history.gz before.
[pgu@backup_server ~]$ ls -l /bkp/wal/ total 18456 -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 229 Dec 31 11:59 00000001000000000000000B.00000028.backup.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 230 Dec 31 11:59 0000000200000000000000D4.00000028.backup.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 16777216 Dec 31 13:10 0000000200000000000000F7 -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 231 Dec 31 13:10 0000000200000000000000F7.00000028.backup.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 37896 Dec 31 13:12 0000000200000000000000F8.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 16468 Dec 31 13:16 0000000200000000000000F9.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 2000673 Dec 31 13:20 0000000200000000000000FA.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 37598 Dec 31 13:26 0000000200000000000000FB.gz -rw-------. 1 pgu pgu 50 Dec 31 16:43 00000002.history
restoring from the local server works consistently using: restore_command ='gunzip /bkp/wal/%f && cp /bkp/wal/%f %p'
Could you please help me with the appropriate restore command to recover from a remote server?