I pulled up another instance of pgadmin to take a look since the initial instance gave me the windows "not responding" message on the title bar. In the server status log file I see the following lines right about where my disk and cpu activity stops and my backup seems to hang. There are no other reports in the log after these three. LOG unexpected EOF on client connection LOG unexpected EOF on client connection LOG unexpected EOF on client connection Status tab shows: user querey start querey postgres 11:35am copy public.<the name of my large table here> In locks tab I see about 30 locks listed all for the same large table They are all for the same start time of 11:35am Mode: accessShareLock Granted: yes. they all say yes for granted. Transactions tab: empty I would appreciate your help. David _____________________________________________________________ Need cash? Click to get an emergency loan, bad credit ok http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijlfjASGwOi5szeQR1lqrOYPiuL14vxA33m9QSB4RF5MNIyDc/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly