Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 23:56:57 +0700
From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
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Subject: Re: wal-g (https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g) reliability
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Hello Nikolay,

Thank you for the comprehensive reply. 

Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> In short, it's reliable and battle-tested. It's used in  companies such as
> Yandex.Cloud and GitLab.com, successfully.
> 
> You can find materials about it from Yandex.Cloud -- for example, from
> Andrey Borodin who is one of WAL-G maintainers. He is a frequent guest of
> our online community sessions -- see https://YouTube.com/RuPostgres (in
> Russian).
> 
> Additionally, you can reach out to the people who use WAL-G here:
> - Postgres community Slack
> https://postgres-slack.herokuapp.com/, it has WAL-G channel (English)
> - Postgres telegram group https://t.me/pgsql (Russian).
> 
> Despite talking to others, I strongly recommend having periodical (say,
> daily) automated verification jobs that check your backups -- this is both
> useful to start trusting the backup tool and to ensure that your backups
> are in a good shape. Without automated verification, a DR strategy is
> definitely incomplete.
> 
> That being said, it's not a small project so it may have issues depending
> on how you use it. Among possible caveats: if you use it in Google Cloud,
> you might have issues with backup-push failures when GCS  has instability
> events -- this was fixed in the very recent codebase. Also, there are some
> issues on AWS for the new codebase that are reported for the master, but I
> don't have details (I suppose using some older version should be better
> here).
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 01:54 Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > What do you think of wal-g? Can you entrust your data to it? Has it ever
> > failed you? Any hidden caveats?
> >
> > --
> > Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> > 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
> >
> >
> >

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/