Hello. I'm running 8.4 and with a backup procedure of pg_start_backup() copy base backup pg_stop_backup() The backup script failed and the pg_stop_backup command were killed so now the pg_xlog/ directory has some extra xxxxxxxxxx.backup files and in the archive_status/ directory I have the corresponding xxxxxxxxxx.backup.done files. So I guess it would be ok to delete the old xxxxxxx.backup and backup.done files? Saving just the last one, or is there some unfinished task that pg_stop_backup should have done? pg_stat_activitity shows no pg_start/stop_backup running -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin