Christophe Pettus: After pgBackRest
pgBackRest is now unmaintained. If you were running pgBackRest in production — and a lot of people were running pgBackRest in production — what do you actu…
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30 Apr 2026 8 min read Categories: PostgreSQL After pgBackRest pgBackRest is now unmaintained. If you were running pgBackRest in production — and a lot of people were running pgBackRest in production — what do you actually do now? The honest answer has three parts. First: the world has not ended. pgBackRest still works. The git repository still exists, the binaries you have installed still take backups, and your cron jobs do not know that David Steele has stopped maintaining the project. You have time to make a considered choice. Second: there is no drop-in replacement. If there were, this post would be five sentences long.
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