📚 Decoupling Backup and Expiry Operations in PostgreSQL With pgBackRest

Backup management is the backbone of any reliable database administration strategy, and while pgBackRest simplifies this process, its default configuration often combines backup and expiry together. At times, due to slow network bandwidth, huge database sizes, or any other resource crunch, expiring backups (i.e., deleting the older backups) require more than taking backups for databases. […] ...