Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C079FBB85 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 03:48:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38594-02 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 03:48:22 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from fr112.ext.magwien.gv.at (relay-fr112.magwien.gv.at [217.149.225.66]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABA59FBB89 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 03:48:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fr112.ext.magwien.gv.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996B86EF46; Tue, 8 May 2007 08:48:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from exrat0.host.magwien.gv.at (exrat0.host.magwien.gv.at [10.136.132.84]) by fr112.ext.magwien.gv.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1042D6EF92; Tue, 8 May 2007 08:48:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EXADV1.host.magwien.gv.at ([10.152.101.185]) by exrat0.host.magwien.gv.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 8 May 2007 08:47:57 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: PITR and tar Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 08:47:36 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [GENERAL] PITR and tar thread-index: AceQ89yb83kwE+8dT9uXCrbXmygE4gASJO8g References: <1178564286.23358.7.camel@dogma.v10.wvs> From: "Albe Laurenz" To: "Jeff Davis *EXTERN*" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 May 2007 06:47:57.0375 (UTC) FILETIME=[CFCD44F0:01C7913C] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using Sophie and ClamAV at magwien.gv.at X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/334 X-Sequence-Number: 113529 > The docs recommend using tar to perform a base backup for PITR. >=20 > 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