Porting an application across platforms is never particularly easy, nor very interesting. In fact, it's usually a terrible idea: in general, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But sometimes you have to do it. Maybe a new platform has a feature you believe you can't live without, or the project scope is expanding in directions that make you feel like your original platform choice might not have been the best, or maybe it's just necessary to port for political reasons. Whatever.
Look at LSB init scripts for more information.
Copy to /etc/init.d
:
# replace "$YOUR_SERVICE_NAME" with your service's name (whenever it's not enough obvious)
WAL-E needs to be installed on all machines, masters and slaves.
Only one machine, the master, writes WAL segments via continuous archiving. The configuration for the master postgresql.conf
is:
archive_mode = on
archive_command = 'envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-push %p'
archive_timeout = 60