Romain Tartière 😈@rysiek this only works if the database system ensure that what is written to disk is consistent at any point in time.
Most of the time, this is not true, and when you will restore the binary files and restart the database, it will complain that data is inconsistent. In the best case, it will be able to recover at some point in time before the actual snapshot and everything will be fine, but you may have less luck.
Not mentioning that restoring must be done to the very same server version.
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