>In our control plane, we take manual control of the checkpoint process so we can run fast and consistent backups.

> running boring technology in a non-standard way is a risk.

It was a good read and reminder that the industry is loosing experts gradually. I am not a DBA and yet I have heard about this behavior at least couple times in the past as something to avoid. Its just one of those things which didnt get a chance to be documented cause experts avoided it and regulars didn't get into

In other words there exists a concept of HOT and COLD backups for this reason only.