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Shownotes
Nik and Michael are joined by David Steele to talk all things pgBackRest.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• David Steele postgres.fm/people/david-steele
• pgBackRest pgbackrest.org
• pg_basebackup postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.h…
• Barman pgbarman.org
• pgmoneta github.com/pgmoneta/pgmoneta
• WAL-G github.com/wal-g/wal-g
• Return pg_control from pg_backup_stop (patch proposal) postgresql.org/message-id/flat/86436ff9-eb98-4…
• Add StorageReadMulti for prefetched multi-file/range reads from object stores (pgBackRest change that needs review) github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/pull/2783
• pg_hardstorage github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_hardstorage
• Why the cycle of open-source sustainability needs to be virtuous (blog post by Gabriele Bartolini) gabrielebartolini.it/articles/2026/04/why-the-…
• ARIN arin.net
• Stefan Fercot pgstef.github.io/about
• pgBackRest sponsors at the time of recording: AWS, Supabase, pgEdge, Tiger Data, Percona, Eon, Xata, Dalibo, Data Egret
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– Intro & pgBackRest origin story
– Could pgBackRest live in Postgres core? Why it hasn't happened
– Primary vs. standby backups & corruption safety
– Measuring RPO & RTO in practice
– Checksum performance & S3 storage class tips
– Standby replay bottleneck
– Log shipping, streaming replication, and sharding
– Maintenance reality & the sponsorship crisis
– What's next: repo-to-repo backup & RPO-zero streaming
– Incremental backup
– Reliability philosophy
– Second maintainer, community growth & wrap-up
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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, (postgres.fm/people) or by commenting on our Google doc (docs.google.com/document/d/1PNGSn_d0A7gTR4C0p6…)!
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Postgres FM is produced by:
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard (pgmustard.com)
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)
With credit to:
• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork
