Re: Checkpoint Location Format

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:12 +0000, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use
> with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and
> gzip the cluster data directory, issue the pg_stop_backup call, and
> remove all previous un-needed WAL files from the archive.

Is this any help?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00229.php

If so, I'll see about updating it so it can get backpatched to 8.0 and
8.1 also.

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