I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb 
drive in production
and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed 
something important?

Online 
Backup

psql
checkpoint;
SELECT 
pg_switch_xlog();
SELECT 
pg_start_backup('postres_full_backup_June222009');
tar -czvf 
pgprd01_June22_2009_production.dmp.tar.gz data/
SELECT 
pg_stop_backup();

Restore
tar –xzvf 
pgprd01_June22_2009_production.dmp.tar.gz

When starting the database I 
receive many errors that look like the backup was 
corrupted.

2009-06-23 08:29:15 
EDT:@:7614ERROR:  xlog flush request 10D/590D6578 is not satisfied --- flushed 
only to 10D/510C4FB8
2009-06-23 08:29:15 
EDT:@:7614CONTEXT:  writing block 2 of relation 
16403/16884/2696
2009-06-23 08:29:16 
EDT:@:7614ERROR:  xlog flush request 10D/590D6578 is not satisfied --- flushed 
only to 10D/510C4FB8
2009-06-23 08:29:16 
EDT:@:7614CONTEXT:  writing block 2 of relation 
16403/16884/2696
2009-06-23 08:29:16 
EDT:@:7614WARNING:  could not write block 2 of 
16403/16884/2696

pgdb001=> select 
criteria_rank from client001.t1020screen where criteria_rank like 
'%TR009%';
ERROR:  missing chunk number 
0 for toast value 738680

Version
[postg...@pgprd01 data]$ cat 
PG_VERSION 
8.3

Chris Barnes
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