On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:41:12PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM Nick Cleaton wrote:
>
> If I take an instantaneous filesystem-level snapshot of the postgres
> data directory underneath a running postgres server, is that a safe
> backup without do
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM Nick Cleaton wrote:
> If I take an instantaneous filesystem-level snapshot of the postgres
> data directory underneath a running postgres server, is that a safe
> backup without doing any pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup ?
>
Safe, yes[*], but not particularly recomm
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM Nick Cleaton wrote:
> If I take an instantaneous filesystem-level snapshot of the postgres
> data directory underneath a running postgres server, is that a safe
> backup without doing any pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup ?
>
> It seems like it should be, so long as I
