Databases: going deeper

Lesson 09 · 14 min

Backups and point in time recovery

pg_dump versus physical backups, WAL archiving, PITR, restore drills, RPO and RTO.

14 minLesson 9 of 10Practice includedAsk AI on any point

A backup nobody has tried to restore is just hope. The question is not "do we take backups" but "how much data will we lose and how long will we be down if the database gets deleted at 14:37".

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