PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery: A Complete Guide

Your database has never failed. That's not because you're careful. It's because you haven't been running long enough. Hardware dies. Disk controllers corrupt data silently for weeks before anyone notices. An engineer runs a DELETE without a WHERE clause on production. A cloud provider has a multi-zone outage. The only thing standing between you and catastrophic data loss is a backup you can actually restore from. This guide covers how PostgreSQL backup actually works: the difference between logi