pgBackRest Project Discontinued After 13 Years of Development
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Summary
The creator of pgBackRest, a popular open-source PostgreSQL backup and restore tool, announces that the project is no longer being maintained after 13 years of development. The author explains this difficult decision, noting the project had corporate sponsorship for much of its life but also required significant personal time and effort. The announcement advises that if anyone forks the project, they should choose a new name.
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pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked to make pgBackRest the project it is today.
Every open-source developer knows exactly what I mean and how much of
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