Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I noticed recently that my PITR base backups were occassionally returning > non-zero, so I turned up the verbosity on rsync and it appears that > occassionally a file vanishes out from under rsync while it's doing the base > backup: > ... > Would it be ok to just exclude the pg_internal.init file since it disappeared > during the base backup? It's safe to exclude those, but those are hardly the only files that might "disappear" in a live database. It'd be better to use a dump tool that's less picky about the source data changing under it. We've had similar reports about GNU tar being too smart for this purpose :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
