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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Merlin Moncure <[email protected]>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PITR and tar
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 10:28:50 -0700
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On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:24 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Jeff Davis <[email protected]> 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?
> 

Yes. I have a battery-backed cache as well, and there were no power
failures involved. 

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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