On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 07:18:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > If possible, I'd take a physical backup (e.g. with tar) of the entire $PGDATA directory, Make sure the backup goes directly to a different physical volume in case the underlying hardware is bad. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general