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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