RE: moving a backup from on-prem linux to azure

I would suggest using Slony to setup a replication slave (PG9.6 or even PG12) on the azure server and disconnect the replica from source (PG9.4) once everything is migrated across. And, you would have upgraded to the latest version and migrated to Azure in a single approach. Please visit http://www.slony.info/ for the exact approach but I reckon it is from a 9.3 to 9.4 within an on-prem setup. However, in your case you just have to replace the on-prem steps of the replica with Azure config.
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Subject: moving a backup from on-prem linux to azure

Good afternoon,

We are contemplating moving our linux based production postgres database to our Azure subscription. What is the most common method of moving a pg_dump file to azure to perform a pg_restore? (We are running postgres 9.4 - I realize we would have to upgrade to at least 9.6 to restore to azure).

Any comments welcome. Thank you,

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