On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen.fuchsberger@uni-graz.at> wrote:
> So am I doing something wrong or are the WAL files really needed?
If you're backing up a live server, and there is activity during the backup...
You're missing step 1.5: select pg_start_backup('whatever') on the server.
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