pg_dump failure in tar format. - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tomeh, Husam
Subject pg_dump failure in tar format.
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Msg-id C45835824D00A844BBD0F032D5CDED920116DC2E@pisgana01sxch01.ana.firstamdata.com
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Responses Re: pg_dump failure in tar format.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-admin
I'm getting the following error message (postgres 8.0):

pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 2128,
attempted 3738) when I run pg_dump with -Ft (tar format).

When I ran the backup job, it terminate abnormally with the error after
about 1 minute, yet I still have over 25 GB of free space on the file
system /pload (terminated backup file is only 21 MB). I read a thread
where someone stated that it has to do with size of the /tmp and not
actually the file system I'm directing my pg_dump to. Is this true?  (my
/tmp has about 2 GB of free space).
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-08/msg00005.php

Any clue ?  Thank,

(I'm using the tar format because I'm backing up the tables on an 8.0
postgres database and then need to restore them on 7.x database.)



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 Husam



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