PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm

A group of companies including AWS and Percona have stepped up to fund the maintenance of pgBackRest, an extension to the widely used open source database PostgreSQL, after its future was left hanging in the balance. The tool provides a backup and restore solution for the PostgreSQL RDBMS, which has become more or less ubiquitous in services offered by cloud providers including AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. It had been maintained for the last 13 years by David Steele, a principal architect a