On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 2:15 AM Jason Ralph <jralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I currently have the systems running a parallel pg_dump each night to a separate partition mounted on the VM. Then I perform a full backup of the VM and all mounted drives each night. Would this be affected by disabling wal archiving? I noted that I understood wal archiving was affected in my initial question. But I was not able to see how it could affect my setup. Please school me if I am being naive. No, if you are using pg_dump you are not affected by archiving. Archiving is used to backup with tools like pgbackrest, barman, wal-e and alike. If you are running your database isolated (i.e., no slaves, no advanced backups), running it without replication level in wal and using only pg_dump is fine. Luca
