On 23/10/2017, 17:17, "George Neuner" <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Doesn't GCloud provide a way to export drive images?
[He asks naively, never having used it.]
Nope – just the dd method (although this doesn’t work on VMWare, so you need to
use a VWM utility on a Win pc to get it). I’m pretty sure Google use VMW, so
it’s pretty poor!
> Move/rename the PG data directory, then use initdb to create a new
cluster. You'll have to reload your databases from backups.
Cheers. I’m going off the idea of using VMs very quickly as I can see no real
advantage and plenty of grief for my use case.
Consider this question resolved (
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