Pgbackrest Discontinued: Impact and Alternatives

Executive TL;DR:

• Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained due to lack of financial support.
• Users are looking for alternatives such as wal-g and barman.
• The community is discussing the importance of financial sustainability for open-source projects.

The Internet’s Verdict: 70% Concerned, 30% Indifferent

Community Reaction

The news of pgbackrest being discontinued has sent shockwaves through the community. As one user stated:

So sad to see this happening.. I had just last year prepared a detailed guide for reliable postgre backups to local volume as well as cloud storage, using pgBackRest, for my own projects.. pgBackRest have worked so well for me

Alternatives and Next Steps

Users are now looking for alternatives to pgbackrest. Some options include wal-g and barman. As another user asked:

What’s the next-closest thing? wal-g? barman? databasus? I only get to cosplay as a DBA.

The community is also discussing the importance of financial sustainability for open-source projects. As one user noted:

Open Source has worked fine here. The author doesn’t find financial support for the work, so they just want to change winds and that’s a perfectly fine path forward. If this is really much more than a personal project for fun, on my leisure time, and it became an actually serious product-level project that provides good value in commercial environments for people, there’s clearly an opportunity for a for-profit company to step in and cover that niche.

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