Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
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Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#2Hello everyone, I'm the primary author for WAL-G and would be happy to answer any questions.
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#3I've used WAL-E (the predecessor of this) for backing up Postgres's DB for years and it's been a very pleasant experience. From what I've read so far this looks like it's superior in every way. Lower resource usage, faster operation, and the switch to Go for WAL-G (v.s. Python for WAL-E) means no more mucking with Python versions either.
Great job to everybody that's working on this. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#4Hello everyone, I'm the primary author for WAL-G and would be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks for making this! To someone who's unfamiliar with Postgres tooling, what's the difference between WAL-G and Barman? What're the advantages of using one over the other?
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#5Hello everyone, I'm the primary author for WAL-G and would be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks for making this! To someone who's unfamiliar with Postgres tooling, what's the difference between WAL-G and Barman? What're the advantages of using one over the other?
I was kafkes's guide on this project, and the WAL-E author and maintainer...
I'd say the differences between WAL-G and Barman are similar to WAL-E and Barman, which comes up relatively frequently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573481
In summary, WAL-E is simpler program all around that focuses on cloud storage, barman does more around inventories of backups and file-based backups and configuring Postgres. There are integrative downsides to its span. WAL-E also happens to predate Barman.
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#6For those interested in the repo directly to give it a try you can find it here: https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#7Hello everyone, I'm the primary author for WAL-G and would be happy to answer any questions.
What's the min version of the Postgres server this can be used with?
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#8I've used WAL-E (the predecessor of this) for backing up Postgres's DB for years and it's been a very pleasant experience. From what I've read so far this looks like it's superior in every way. Lower resource usage, faster operation, and the switch to Go for WAL-G (v.s. Python for WAL-E) means no more mucking with Python versions either. Great job to everybody that's working on this. I'm looking forward to trying it…
Every time I saw that mentioned, my mind goes to the movie. https://g.co/kgs/d8G9u5
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#9Fantastic intern project, and fantastic work by the intern!
Re: Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
#10Hello everyone, I'm the primary author for WAL-G and would be happy to answer any questions.
Seriously awesome work on this! I was expecting some solid improvement when I heard you were rewriting this in Go, but this is beyond what I could have expected. 7x improvement on high end instance types!
Also, what an impressive project to have on the resume as a college intern. I don't think many interns get to tackle something so meaningful.