Or you can just put your database in backup mode. We do not need a perfectly consistent file system backup as the starting point. Any internal inconsistency in

Or you can just put your database in backup mode. We do not need a perfectly consistent file system backup as the starting point. Any internal inconsistency in the backup will be corrected by log replay. - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-ar...