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pgBackRest is no longer maintained: a calm migration plan for production Postgres operators

Close-up of an open mechanical hard drive showing the spinning platter and read/write actuator arm — physical-storage context for backup discussion (photo: Amalia Digital / Pexels)

The pgBackRest GitHub repository was archived this week — the maintainer announced that the project is no longer being actively developed. For anyone running production PostgreSQL backups via pgBackRest (and that’s a lot of people; it’s been the de facto …