On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:24 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: > 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? > Yes. I have a battery-backed cache as well, and there were no power failures involved. Regards, Jeff Davis
