Secure SFTP Backups with pgBackRest for PostgreSQL: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction pgBackRest is an open source tool that allows you to perform automated backup and restore operations for a PostgreSQL server. It allows you to take both full and incremental file system backups of your data. With pgBackRest, you can set up multiple repositories for your backups, both local and remote. You can further customize the configuration to take backups at specific times of the day so that regular operations are not affected, and backup retention and rotation can be customized as needed. ...

May 14, 2025 · 8 min · Naveen Kannan