On 5/8/07, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> 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().
is fsync on?
merlin
