Thomas Güttler wrote: > We run a PostgreSQL 9.6 server in a virtual machine. > > The virtual machine is managed by the customer. > > He does backup the VM. > > Is this enough, is this safe? I don't know about VMware, but the general rule is that if the backup is truly atomic (it is guaranteed to capture a consistent state of the file system), you can use it to backup the database. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general