Celso Vieira wrote: > Does the backup generated with scp contain a file "backup_label"? It should. > - No, because when I copy the data has already been generated pg_stop_backup erasing the > backup_label , but already tried unsuccessfully to do the reverse . There's the problem. Without a backup_label file, the backup will be corrupt. You have to wait until scp is finished before running pg_stop_backup. What you see is entirely consistent with that. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin