Postgres FM
Backups
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Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres backups — why we need them, what the options are, whether a dump is a backup or not, and some considerations for lowering RPO and RTO at scale.
Here are some links to some extra things they mentioned:
- pg_dump https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html
- pg_basebackup https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.html
- pgBackRest https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
- WAL-G https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g
- Barman https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
- Data loss at GitLab (2017) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/
- Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues (YouTube video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc
- Our episode on corruption https://postgres.fm/episodes/corruption
- DBLab Engine https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
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- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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