Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres backups — why we need them, what the options are, whether a dump is a backup or not, and some considerations for lowering RPO and RTO at scale.  Here are some links to some extra things they mentioned: pg_dump https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html  pg_basebackup https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.html pgBackRest https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest  WAL-G https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g  Barman https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman  Data loss at GitLab (2017) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/  Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues (YouTube video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc  Our episode on corruption https://postgres.fm/episodes/corruption  DBLab Engine https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine  ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc! ~~~ Postgres FM is brought to you by: Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork