On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen.fuchsberger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So am I doing something wrong or are the WAL files really needed? If you're backing up a live server, and there is activity during the backup... You're missing step 1.5: select pg_start_backup('whatever') on the server. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin