Hi Paul, El día viernes, mayo 01, 2020 a las 10:23:37a. m. +0200, Paul Förster escribió: > > you may have a look at the tar man page. tar in Linux has the --exclude=PATTERN option. I do know the man page(s) of tar ant the --exclude=PATTERN. > You may specify the PGDATA directory there. This is, what I wanted to know: that the cluster can be moved without the PGDATA dir and still works fine. > Also, why do you have the PGDATA directory inside the software home directory? That makes no sense and only leads to problems when updating or, in your case, moving. > I don't. The software is below /usr/local/sisis-pap/pgsql and the cluster is below /data/postgres11.4/data. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub