Comment by ComputerGuru
12 hours ago
There’s no need to get all complicated and fancy or introduce more dependencies. For most people, a cron job calling pg_dump_all piped to zstd and copying the output to s3/ftp/whatever is plenty good enough.
Obviously past a certain point carting around full backups becomes time/dollar prohibitive, but this can take you very far.
FWIW, we started with a system that was essentially this. We eventually moved to pgbackrest and it wasn't any harder to setup. But the ROI on that investment is a lot higher because pgbackrest does a lot more for us than the home rolled solution.
Having done both, I'd recommend just starting with pgbackrest.
If you can afford to lose the data created between backups, sure.
Better than losing all the data created between no backups.
But the other option is just doing it right from the start and using a tool like pgbackrest. It's no harder to setup, and it puts you into best practices by default rather than having to work at it later.
I just don't understand why people seem so drawn to the bad solution just because it ships with the database.
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