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From Scott Ribe
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In response to Backup of shut down standby does not work?  (Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen.fuchsberger@uni-graz.at>)
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On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen.fuchsberger@uni-graz.at> wrote:

> So am I doing something wrong or are the WAL files really needed?

If you're backing up a live server, and there is activity during the backup...

You're missing step 1.5: select pg_start_backup('whatever') on the server.

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