PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm
AWS, Percona, Supabase, pgEdge, and Tiger Data rally round pgBackRest with funding pledge
A group of companies including AWS andPercona have stepped up to fund the maintenance of pgBackRest, an extension to the widely used open source database PostgreSQL, after its future was left hanging in the balance.
The tool provides a backup and restoresolution for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, which has become more or less ubiquitous inservices offered by cloud providers including AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure.
It had been maintained for the last 13 years by David Steele, a principal architect at Crunchy Data – whichprovides PostgreSQL managed cloud services, Kubernetes deployments, andon-prem solutions – until June last year. At that time, cloud data analyticscompany Snowflake bought Crunchy Data to help provide a transactionaldatabase.
A Snowflake spokesperson said: "Open source software is built on broad community participation, and we are pleased to see continued support for pgBackRest from organizations...
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