To give context, Val Town have a particularly write-heavy setup, storing a lot of json strings. The nightly backups were causing write-contention, even at their relatively small size. We didn’t detect errors because they were application-level. We should have moved them to PITR as soon as they mentioned it since the timing was so obviously coinciding with backups. We’re investigating moving everyone to PITR (including the free tier). At the very least, we’ll add more control for backups - allowing users to change the maintenance window, or possibly disabling backups completely if they are managing it themselves.
To give context, Val Town have a particularly write-heavy setup, storing a lot of json strings. The nightly backups were causing write-contention, even at their relatively small size. We didn’t detect errors because they were application-level. We should have moved them to PITR as soon as they mentioned it since the timing was so obviously coinciding with backups. We’re investigating moving everyone to PITR (including the free tier). At the very least, we’ll add more control for backups - allowing users to change the maintenance window, or possibly disabling backups completely if they are managing it themselves.