diff --git a/src/backend/replication/basebackup.c b/src/backend/replication/basebackup.c
index 8ea6682a45..1cb17636e6 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/basebackup.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/basebackup.c
@@ -1265,6 +1265,7 @@ sendFile(const char *readfilename, const char *tarfilename, struct stat *statbuf
 	BlockNumber blkno = 0;
 	char		buf[TAR_SEND_SIZE];
 	uint16		checksum;
+	int			checksum_failures = 0;
 	size_t		cnt;
 	char	   *filename;
 	int			i;
@@ -1353,13 +1354,21 @@ sendFile(const char *readfilename, const char *tarfilename, struct stat *statbuf
 					phdr = (PageHeader) page;
 					if (phdr->pd_checksum != checksum)
 					{
-						ereport(WARNING,
-								(errmsg("checksum verification failed in file "
-										"\"%s\", block %d: calculated %X but "
-										"expected %X",
-										readfilename, blkno, checksum,
-										phdr->pd_checksum)));
+						if (checksum_failures <= 5)
+							ereport(WARNING,
+									(errmsg("checksum verification failed in "
+											"file \"%s\", block %d: calculated "
+											"%X but expected %X",
+											readfilename, blkno, checksum,
+											phdr->pd_checksum)));
+						if (checksum_failures == 5)
+							ereport(WARNING,
+									(errmsg("further checksum verification "
+											"failures in file \"%s\" will not "
+											"be reported", readfilename)));
+
 						checksum_failure = true;
+						checksum_failures++;
 					}
 				}
 				blkno++;
@@ -1383,6 +1392,7 @@ sendFile(const char *readfilename, const char *tarfilename, struct stat *statbuf
 			 */
 			break;
 		}
+
 	}
 
 	/* If the file was truncated while we were sending it, pad it with zeros */
@@ -1411,6 +1421,11 @@ sendFile(const char *readfilename, const char *tarfilename, struct stat *statbuf
 
 	FreeFile(fp);
 
+	if (checksum_failures > 5)
+		ereport(WARNING,
+				(errmsg("file \"%s\" has a total of %d checksum verification "
+						"failures", readfilename, checksum_failures)));
+
 	return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl
index d4c47f1377..7955747ae0 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl
+++ b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use Cwd;
 use Config;
 use PostgresNode;
 use TestLib;
-use Test::More tests => 84;
+use Test::More tests => 87;
 
 program_help_ok('pg_basebackup');
 program_version_ok('pg_basebackup');
@@ -337,7 +337,22 @@ $node->command_checks_all([ 'pg_basebackup', '-D', "$tempdir/backup_corrupt"],
 	'pg_basebackup reports checksum mismatch'
 );
 
+# induce further corruption
+open $file, '+<', "$pgdata/$pg_class";
+for (my $offset = 4000 + 8*1024; $offset < 50000; $offset += 8*1024) {
+  seek($file, $offset, 0);
+  syswrite($file, '\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0');
+}
+close $file;
+
+$node->command_checks_all([ 'pg_basebackup', '-D', "$tempdir/backup_corrupt2"],
+        1,
+        [qr{^$}],
+        [qr/^WARNING.*further.*failures.will.not.be.reported/s],
+        'pg_basebackup does not report more than 5 checksum mismatches'
+);
+
 # do not verify checksums, should return ok
 $node->command_ok(
-	[   'pg_basebackup', '-D', "$tempdir/backup_corrupt2", '-k' ],
+	[   'pg_basebackup', '-D', "$tempdir/backup_corrupt3", '-k' ],
 	'pg_basebackup with -k does not report checksum mismatch');