In Chapter 18, Logical Replication, we talked about disaster recovery and PITR, and we saw how to conduct them programmatically. In the real world, a DBA has to manage multiple PostgreSQL servers and it is useful to have some tools to make life easier. The open source world offers us a lot of solutions to address disaster recovery in an easy way. Some of these tools are listed here:
- WAL-E
- pgbarman
- OmniPITR
There are many others, and at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tools, you can find a good comparison of them all.
In this section, we will give a nod to pgbackrest. The pgbackrest tool is a tool for PostgreSQL disaster recovery and PITR, and it has been designed for heavy load servers. Its official URL is https://pgbackrest.org/.
These are some of the features of the tool:
- It supports parallel backup and parallel restore.
- It can make full base backups, incremental backups, or differential backups.
- We can choose to make local operations...
