Thomas Güttler wrote:
> We run a PostgreSQL 9.6 server in a virtual machine.
>
> The virtual machine is managed by the customer.
>
> He does backup the VM.
>
> Is this enough, is this safe?
I don't know about VMware, but the general rule is that
if the backup is truly atomic (it is guaranteed to capture
a consistent state of the file system), you can use it
to backup the database.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe