[Video 265] David Steele: Heavy Duty Backup with PgBackRest

Every database needs to be backed up; the data is too important to lose, and there’s often no way to reproduce it. The standard backup program for PostgreSQL is pg_dump, but perhaps you want something with higher performance or greater flexibility. PgBackRest is one such tool that has is maintained and used by some members of the PostgreSQL community, which aims to solve many of the problems currently experienced when creating backups. In this talk, David Steele introduces PgBackRest, and describes its motivation, operation, and use cases.

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