Re: PITR and tar

From: "Albe Laurenz" <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Jeff Davis *EXTERN*" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PITR and tar
Date: 2007-05-08 06:47:36
Message-ID: AFCCBB403D7E7A4581E48F20AF3E5DB20291A531@EXADV1.host.magwien.gv.at
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> 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?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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