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Physical Backups in Postgres via pg_basebackup

Muhammad Ali takes a backup:

The security and integrity of your company’s data are crucial in today’s data-driven environment. You must have a reliable backup plan in place to protect your PostgreSQL databases against unplanned calamities. In this article, we’ll examine how to create physical backups using the PostgreSQL tool pg_basebackup. We’ll talk about client needs, business use cases, backup space complexity, disaster recovery, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and how to use PostgreSQL to put these strategies into practice.

Read on for the instructions. Of particular importance is that point-in-time recovery.