Hi Matthias, > On 01. May, 2020, at 10:31, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't. The software is below > > /usr/local/sisis-pap/pgsql > > and the cluster is below > > /data/postgres11.4/data. in this case, all you'd have to do is: tar cvf software.tar /usr/local/sisis-pap/pgsql to only copy the software. You don't even need to stop the database cluster for this because nothing is ever changed inside the software tree by a running database cluster. Changes are only done in PGDATA. Cheers, Paul