Backrest's back, alright! (opens in new tab)

Events unfolded quickly over the course of a couple of weeks starting on 27 April 2026, when a message appeared on the pgBackRest project announcing: that the repository would be archived and active maintenance would stop. For many in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, this landed like a shock. pgBackRest is one of the most widely used backup and recovery tools for PostgreSQL, deeply embedded in production environments across enterprises large and small. Now it was suddenly described as “dead”, “EOL”,...