of mistakes when restoring. This is easy to arrange if

<filename>pg_xlog/</> is a symbolic link pointing to someplace outside

the cluster directory, which is a common setup anyway for performance

reasons.

reasons. You might also want to exclude <filename>postmaster.pid</>

and <filename>postmaster.opts</>, which record information

about the running <application>postmaster</>, not about the

<application>postmaster</> which will eventually use this backup.

(These files can confuse <application>pg_ctl</>.)

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