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Nifty. But I can't help thinking this was harder than it needed to be in the cloud. Because frankly, 4 TB is not big: my home Synology backup server is 4 TB. Making a pair of standalone Linux servers to rehearse this locally, and with full control of which Postgres modules and other software to use, would have made things easier, it seems.

Anyway, thanks for food for thought.

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I wouldn't think using "standalone" versus whatever would make much of a difference.

If you're using a hosted DB service, you're (probably) stuck in needing/wanting to rehearse using the hosted service (which is what the blog post describes).

If they were running the DB on 'regular server' cloud instances, it seems just as good to me to rehearse with other cloud server instances versus "standalone" servers.

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