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no PITB, but mostly just 'it's hassle' for the application server I literally don't need backups, just automated provisioning/docker container etc. Adding postgres then means I need full backups including PITB because I don't even want to lose an hours data.

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Or use SQLite and your backups are literally a copy of a file.

You can abuse git for it if you really want to cut corners.

Only if you can freeze your application for that long, in which case your statement is true for all non-broken databases.

It only freezes your application if you've misconfigured it.

If you want to backup your database using just a file copy, you'd better freeze your database if you value your data. Or use a fancy snapshotting filesystem.

You can easily do consistent backup on live databases. There’s a backup command and API.

Sure. But then it's not "just a file" copy, like GP said.

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