Re: FW: Setting up of PITR system.

We have high volume inserts happening with wal files being generated
very rapidly. Will the fact that the files change as the tar happens
have any effect at all on the recovery..assuming all the appropriate wal
archive logs are available.

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Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:11 AM
To: Tom Lane
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Subject: Re: FW: [ADMIN] Setting up of PITR system.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:46:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It definitely is a pain in the neck that GNU tar complains about files
> changing underneath it --- I've looked for a way to disable that, or
at
> least reduce it to a warning instead of an error condition, but gtar
> doesn't seem to have such a switch. You should try alternative backup
> tools such as cpio or rsync.

Or you might submit a patch to GNU tar. There's also a BSD version of
tar, it's on at least FreeBSD (not sure if there's a stand-alone version
avaiable). It might not suffer from the same problem, though I haven't
tried it. I do have a machine I could try it with if that would help.
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