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With Postgres, it's perfectly safe and supported if you just do it according to the documentation using pg_start/stop_backup and also archive your WALs properly
by chousuke 8y ago
With Postgres, it's perfectly safe and supported if you just do it according to the documentation using pg_start/stop_backup and also archive your WALs properly. Most databases have something similar.
- lettergram 8y agoNote, you do need to track the version of Postgres. So a backup from a PG 8 may need to be reloaded into PG 8 before upgrading to PG 9, 10, 11, etc