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Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
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Databases & DataInfrastructure & DevOps2017
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Aug 18, 2017 | Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres by craigkerstiens | 217 | 65 |
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Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Oct 2017 to Jun 2026.
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- __s · Jun 28, 2026
- fdr · Feb 27, 2019
- craigkerstiens · Oct 30, 2017
