On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, I heard about one or two things :) > 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. There are two types of snapshots: quiesced and non-quiesced. You definitely want a quiesced snapshot when taking a backup so as the system gets into a consistent state when working on it. There should be an option related to that on the vSphere client managing the VM, so make sure that quiesced is enabled. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
