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WAL-G

Archival and restoration tool for databases

Backup & Recovery ★ 4.3k stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

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.

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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 (4.3k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Go

WAL-G replaces

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