Backups

Postgres FM

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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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!

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Postgres FM is brought to you by:

• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork