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by waffle_ss 3707 days ago
How does this compare to WAL-E?

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
2 comments
melor 3707 days ago
Both do mostly the same thing with some differences. The biggest difference currently could be that WAL-E uses the PostgreSQL "archive_command" to send incremental backups (WAL files) in complete 16 megabyte chunks, whereas PGHoard uses real-time streaming with "pg_receivexlog", making the data loss window much smaller in case of a disaster.
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willlll 3706 days ago
You can set archive_timeout to something like 1 minute to bound the window.
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oskari 3706 days ago
PGHoard also supports Google Cloud which doesn't seem to be supported in WAL-E at the moment.
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