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Barman Replacing pgbackrest: I Migrated My Postgres Backups in Production and Here's What I Found

pgbackrest went unmaintained. Barman shows up trending on HN almost immediately after. I did the actual migration on Railway, measured restore times, backup size, and configuration complexity. My conclusion is uncomfortable: the community is celebrating way too fast.

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pgbackrest is unmaintained: what I'm doing with my Postgres backups in production now

A 425-point HN thread about pgbackrest losing its maintainer caught me completely off guard. What I learned evaluating Barman, WAL-G, and plain pg_dump — and why restore times tell you more than any GitHub star count ever will.

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