| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | andy(dot)shellam(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk, 'Rajesh Kumar Mallah' <mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FW: Setting up of PITR system. |
| Date: | 2006-03-31 18:10:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20060331181047.GU49405@pervasive.com |
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:46:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It definitely is a pain in the neck that GNU tar complains about files
> changing underneath it --- I've looked for a way to disable that, or at
> least reduce it to a warning instead of an error condition, but gtar
> doesn't seem to have such a switch. You should try alternative backup
> tools such as cpio or rsync.
Or you might submit a patch to GNU tar. There's also a BSD version of
tar, it's on at least FreeBSD (not sure if there's a stand-alone version
avaiable). It might not suffer from the same problem, though I haven't
tried it. I do have a machine I could try it with if that would help.
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