PG Phriday: Getting Back Up
In light of recent events where GitLab suffered a massive database loss, this is a great opportunity to examine what happened from a Postgres perspective. Since Simon Riggs over at 2ndQuadrant has already chimed in on improvements Gitlib might consider in their procedures, maybe we should walk the conversation back slightly.
This isn’t the first time Postgres backup tooling has been misused or misunderstood. The topic of backups hits forums and mailing lists rather frequently.