Re: PITR and tar - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: PITR and tar
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Msg-id 1178644610.24902.20.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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In response to Re: PITR and tar  ("Albe Laurenz" <all@adv.magwien.gv.at>)
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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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