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From: Albe Laurenz <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis  *EXTERN* <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PITR and tar
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 08:47:36 +0200
Message-ID: <AFCCBB403D7E7A4581E48F20AF3E5DB20291A531@EXADV1.host.magwien.gv.at> (raw)
References: <[email protected]>

> 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?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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