pgBackRest, largely considered one of the most widely used PostgreSQL backup tools, is getting its own session at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2026 in Valencia, Spain. 🐘 "The Monday We Learned Who Maintains Our Backups" is on Tuesday 20 October, 14:45 local time, in Audit 2 (Beginner level). David Steele (pgBackRest) and Jan Wieremjewicz (Percona) cover why the tool was created, how it became a core part of the PostgreSQL ecosystem, what maintaining it involves, and how users, vendors and the community responded when doubts about its future spread. The close is in regards to funding and succession planning. New to it? pgBackRest is a free, MIT-licensed backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL. It supports parallel backup and restore, full, differential and incremental backups at the file or block level, per-file checksums rechecked on restore, repository encryption, and S3, Azure or GCS compatible object storage. pgEdge is one of pgBackRest's sponsors, and a Gold Sponsor of the conference. If you're in Valencia, come by the pgEdge table in the sponsor area. Session details: 🎙️ hubs.la/Q04Bj0970 #postgresql #postgres #pgbackrest #backup #disasterrecovery #opensource #database #dba #valencia #spain #techevent #techcommunity