PostgreSQL Backups to Support Point In Time Recovery: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant


 

The focus of your backup strategy should not be backups. Instead, you should be focused on restoring databases, because, after all, that’s what matters. Simply having a backup is fine. However, if you can’t restore your data from that backup, it doesn’t matter. On top of this is the ability to ensure you can restore your databases to a point in time, not simply to the last full backup. That ability requires a different approach to how you perform your backups.

PostgreSQL has the capabilities to support backups as I already described in my first article on the topic. PostgreSQL