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In addition, Every centralized storage, and every cloud provider lets you take a snapshot of a database's disks.

We can restore a 10TB disk in about 12 minutes. its much faster to snapshot, do migration, then if necessary, drop disk and remake from snapshot. (and then replay the replay any other WAL changes up to the exact second you want with a tool like barman, wall-e, pg_backreset, etc.

Postgresql backups are critical for disaster recovery, but the restores are so very, very slow, they should be a last resort.