On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Stuart Luppescu <slu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not open TOC file for input: No such > file or directory It sounds like the tar file is no longer being created. Try manually running the commands, and verify that the dump, restore, and rsync still work correctly at each step. David.