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From Bob Hatfield
Subject Re: Are file system level differential/incremental backups possible?
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In response to Re: Are file system level differential/incremental backups possible?  (Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>)
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> Anyway, a better way for you would be to do a regular backup (with pg_start_backup, copy and pg_stop_backup) and then
usewal archive_command to keep the xlogs between 2 full backups. 

Thanks Julien.  Can pg_start/stop_backup() be used for regular full
file system backups?   All of the documentation I've read only refers
to using those for warm standby/wal shipping methods.

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