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by wiredfool 4615 days ago
Unless tarsnap does something like LVM snapshotting, then it's not going to get a consistent snapshot. You can't just copy the directory of an active server.

See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/continuous-archivi... section 24.3.2. Making a Base Backup.

IF you have something like LVM of ZFS doing snapshots, then you can just tar the data directory.