[AznHisoka]

In my experience, WAL-E is very brittle and fails with weird errors at times such as when your database restarts, or when it fails to upload a segment.

I have gone back to using pg_dump even though its not a real-time snapshot. In the end, replication + pg_dump gets the job done

[brianwawok]

I added a pager duty alert to my wall-e when backups stop. Happen once or so a month. Not ideal but I just poke it with a stick and it comes back.

[Tostino]

I switched from wal-e to pgbackrest a couple years ago. Totally worth it.