Gotcha's in copying data between servers via file copy

Frank Church wrote:

I want to copy the data from one server to another. One is running Postgresql
7.4.6 and the other 7.4.7.

Are they any gotchas I should lookout for when making the copy?

None. You can shutdown and do a binary copy of the filesystem, or use
pg_dump or pg_dumpall.

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