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		cube00 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go ahead, self-host Postgres Scheduled automatic snapshots are not the kind of consistent snapshots you need for a filesystem based backup.

cosmodust 12 days ago [–]

Snapshots might break ACID for last few transactions but it will flush all in-memory writes before taking the freeze. Consider its 1 click solution, its good enough than losing everything?

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