Looks like a problem specific to FreeBSD. I use Centos/postgres 8.2.3
and I do not see that problem at all.
Dhaval
On 5/8/07, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:24 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > On 5/8/07, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> 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
>
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