On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:12 +0000, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: > I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use > with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and > gzip the cluster data directory, issue the pg_stop_backup call, and > remove all previous un-needed WAL files from the archive. Is this any help? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00229.php If so, I'll see about updating it so it can get backpatched to 8.0 and 8.1 also. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com