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Re: VM-Ware Backup of VM safe?

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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

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