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Barman Replacing pgbackrest: I Migrated My Postgres Backups in Production and Here's What I Found

DEV Community·Juan Torchia·30 days ago
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Barman Replacing pgbackrest: I Migrated My Postgres Backups in Production and Here's What I Found The weekend I migrated from Vercel to Railway — the same one I mentioned when I talked about cold starts — I spent nearly twelve hours reading Postgres logs I'd never had to read that seriously before. It wasn't a tutorial. It was real production, real data, and the underlying question was always the same: if this blows up right now, how long does it take me to get back? That left me with a backup obsession I never had back when I was managing shared hosting servers at 19. At that job, the backup strategy was "let's hope nothing happens" combined with provider snapshots that nobody had ever actually verified. I learned that the hard way when a client lost contact form data and the snapshot was three days old. Nothing critical, but the fear stuck. So when I wrote that pgbackrest stopped being maintained and started looking at alternatives, I wasn't coming from academic curiosity.…

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