Re: Backup of shut down standby does not work?

From: Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen(dot)fuchsberger(at)uni-graz(dot)at>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Backup of shut down standby does not work?
Date: 2014-02-13 15:41:24
Message-ID: 52FCE7A4.4090400@uni-graz.at
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On 02/13/2014 03:01 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen(dot)fuchsberger(at)uni-graz(dot)at> wrote:
>
>> So am I doing something wrong or are the WAL files really needed?
>
> If you're backing up a live server, and there is activity during the backup...

I know, but I am backing up a shut down server.

Juergen
>
> You're missing step 1.5: select pg_start_backup('whatever') on the server.
>

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