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by parasubvert 5571 days ago
This is one reason why Oracle is still the gold standard. when entering hot backup mode, which is what you do during a snapshot, it logs the FULL BLOCKS that are changed. Failures and inconsistencies can be replayed from the archive logs.

Of course this means you can quickly blow out your log archival , so it's meant to be a transitory mode:

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PostgreSQL has this exact same feature.