| From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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| To: | Albe Laurenz <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PITR and tar |
| Date: | 2007-05-08 17:16:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1178644610.24902.20.camel@dogma.v10.wvs |
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On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:47 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> > The docs recommend using tar to perform a base backup for PITR.
> >
> > Usually, tar reports notices like:
> > "tar: Truncated write; file may have grown while being archived."
>
> Did you call pg_start_backup(text) before you started to archive?
>
I was referring to the result of the tar itself being a corrupted gzip
file (that couldn't be uncompressed with gunzip).
I did indeed call pg_start/stop_backup().
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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