Using pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() - using 9.1.2.2

Hi all

Please help me here.

I am doing the following between master and the backup server using
archive_command,

I am using O/S - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

On backup or secondary server I did the following:

1. Stopped postgres in backup server

2. Removed all walfiles from /walfiles directory

3. Removed all files from pg_xlog/

Went to master/source server:

1. Issue pg_start_backup('label')

2. Performed rsync of cluster directory (nohup rsync -avz
/pgsql2/data backupserver:/pgsql2/ > /tmp/rsynccopy.out 2>
/tmp/rsynccopy.err & )

3. Step 2 takes a long time because the database is huge. But during
the rsync process many files are getting copied to the backup server
landing in /pgsql2/walfiles/ directory which I cleaned up before starting
backup in the master server.

4. Once step 3, rsync is done I will run Issue pg_stop_backup().

Then connect to secondary server and remove recovery.done and create
recovery.conf file, and remove pid file which got copied from master
server.

Question I have is After doing step 4, what do I with the files that have
been copying as I mentioned in step 3 above or that have been copying
during the rsync command. Do I have to copy any walfiles manually after
doing step 4 above in the master server?

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