On 15 Mar 2011, at 3:06, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: > Dear Friends, > > While taking online basebackup we ignore tar exit codes of 1 . > However under certain circumstances tar exits we code '2' which > stands for 'Fatal Errors' . Eg in case of "Cannot stat: No such file or > directory" > encountered while taking backup of the pgdatadir . My question is > can we ignore such errors of "vanishing files" ? is it normal ? > I think the situation is arising because some table which were created > before start of backup were dropped during the backup. But that is > quite normal also.
You should probably exclude the PG data directories from your file-system backups, there isn't much point in backing them up anyway. Alban Hertroys -- Screwing up is an excellent way to attach something to the ceiling. !DSPAM:737,4d7f0b68235882060612259! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
