• pgBackRest is no longer maintained

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Tue Apr 28 06:40:09 2026

    David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
    PostgreSQL, has archived
    the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.

    After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did
    not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked
    to make pgBackRest the project it is today, aided by numerous
    contributors. Every open-source developer knows exactly what I mean and how much
    of your life gets devoted to a special project.

    Since Crunchy Data was sold, I have been maintaining pgBackRest and looking
    for a position that would allow me to continue the work, but so far I have not been successful. Likewise, my efforts to secure sponsorship have also fallen far
    short of what I need to make the project viable.

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