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From Tom Davies
Subject Re: Backup of live database
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In response to Re: Backup of live database  (Tom Arthurs <tarthurs@jobflash.com>)
Responses Re: Backup of live database  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Backup of live database  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Re: Backup of live database  (Tom Arthurs <tarthurs@jobflash.com>)
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On 17/01/2008, at 4:42 AM, Tom Arthurs wrote:
> The important thing is to start archiving the WAL files *prior* to
> the first OS backup, or you will end up with an unusable data base.

Why does the recovery need WAL files from before the backup?

Tom

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