On 5/8/07, Jeff Davis <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:47 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: > > The docs recommend using tar to perform a base backup for PITR. > > > > Usually, tar reports notices like: > > "tar: Truncated write; file may have grown while being archived." > > Did you call pg_start_backup(text) before you started to archive? > I was referring to the result of the tar itself being a corrupted gzip file (that couldn't be uncompressed with gunzip). I did indeed call pg_start/stop_backup().
is fsync on? merlin
