pgBackRest is a foundational component of the PostgreSQL backup solutions supported by Percona, playing a critical role in ensuring reliable and resilient data protection for our customers. It is a testament to the strength of the open source community that pgBackRest has become such a robust, widely trusted tool over the years.
Recently, changes around the pgBackRest project have raised questions across the PostgreSQL community.
At Percona, we want to address this clearly and simply:
Our customers can continue to rely on us.
Percona remains fully committed to supporting PostgreSQL backup and recovery solutions built on top of pgBackRest. This includes:
Your systems, and your data protection strategy, remain safe in our hands.
We deeply respect the work of the pgBackRest maintainers and the broader PostgreSQL community. Open source evolves and moments like this are part of that journey.
At the same time, moments like this highlight a broader industry reality: widely adopted open source projects can sometimes depend heavily on a small number of contributors. Ensuring long-term sustainability often requires broader collaboration, shared ownership, and continued investment.
Our focus is not on the circumstances, but on what comes next:
Percona is actively evaluating the best long-term path to ensure a stable, sustainable, and community-aligned future for PostgreSQL backup solutions.
We will continue to collaborate, contribute, and invest in the ecosystem to help ensure that PostgreSQL users have dependable, production-ready backup solutions.
For additional context and a deeper technical perspective, please read our community post:
👉 https://percona.community/blog/2026/04/28/pgbackrest-is-archived-what-now/
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