On Thursday 25 June 2009, Chris Barnes <compuguruchrisbarnes@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to
> usb drive in production
> and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed
> something important?
>
You need the transaction logs archived during and immediately after the
backup, and you need to setup a recovery.conf for the initial startup that
can access those files. See the PITR backup notes in the documentation,
they're really quite complete.
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