Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this".
How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
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Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#32Ah, sad to read this. Does anyone know of good alternatives?
Postgres has built-in backups starting with version 18.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#33Why not try to find a successor instead of archiving the repo and forbidding the use of the name? I'm sure with a 3.8k stars repo you'll find competent people willing to continue the work.
They are not really forbidding the use of the name (unless they have registered a trademark), they probably simply want to avoid confusion.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#34So sad to see this happening.. I had just last year prepared a detailed guide for reliable postgre backups to local volume as well as cloud storage, using pgBackRest, for my own projects.. pgBackRest have worked so well for me https://github.com/freakynit/postgre-backup-and-restore-guid... Thanks to the author for all the time and effort he put into this project..
I really wish projects like this didn't fall through the cracks and continued to be funded. The struggles of OSS are too real.
True.. I truly wish wish we had better open-source license and more open-source projects adopt it..
Tiered pricing license... tiering based upon annual company revenues... should start super low for small companies (free for individuals), and jump to thousands of dollars per year for 10+ milion revenue companies.
I understand that this might not fully be in the spirit of open-source, but, what's happening currently is way worse.. where giant companies rip off the hardwork of open-source software maintainers without compsensating them adequately.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#35Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this". How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
I am not sure why are you gatekeeping this? People can't comment now that they are sad because of what happened?
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#36Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this". How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
The number of maintainers is always smaller than the number of users for any successful project. GitHub displays the number of contributors as 57, I don't know if that's small or not.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#37Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this". How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
It's such a strawman to claim that you cannot be sad if something disappears where you have not financially or you work contributed. Someone can say that they are sad that the Notre Dame burned down even if they haven't personally contributed to Notre Dame.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#38I have a moderately sized 2TB production database I have enjoyed using pgBackRest on, and was—this week—going to set it up on another 8TB database we have. What's the next-closest thing? wal-g? barman? databasus? I only get to cosplay as a DBA.
I can beat you on the timing - I'd never used pgBackRest before, but started setting it up on a project about 2 hours ago, by the time I'd finished the README had been updated.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#39Plenty of comments of "So sad I have been using this". How many actually contributed back to keep it going?
I am not sure why are you gatekeeping this? People can't comment now that they are sad because of what happened?
Gatekeeping?!?
Those that paid, or did any kind of contributions upstream are entitled to be sad.
Others should consider this is what happens to that lego piece in Nebraska, when no one contributes, and everyone uses it.
Re: Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
#40I use pgbackrest for some databases in production, and it has been VERY good.