WAL-G
Archival and restoration tool for databases
WAL-G is a backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other databases. It performs continuous archiving and delta backups to cloud storage with strong compression.
Key features
- Continuous WAL archiving
- Delta backups
- Multi-database support
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (4.2k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
WAL-G replaces
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