wal-e VS docker-postgres-wale

See the GitHub: https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

Unmaintained would’ve made more sense to say, but the maintainer choose the words “obsolete” so I took those. :)

Seems to be obsolete due to a lack of interest and contributions.

I believe the idea originally started with Wal-E project (https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e) since then there were many improvements to it and AWS no doubt has their own proprietary solution.

Hope this helps someone out there.

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

Running your own postgres server on AWS is not difficult. You'll want to get familiar with EBS and look into using a tool like wal-e to manage your WAL logs and ensure yuor ability to recover from the various exciting failure modes that Amazon makes available to you.

These read-replicas leveraged WAL segments created by the primary database; however, we didn’t want to bog down the primary database with each replica by reading directly from production. To circumvent this issue, we leverage wal-e, a tool that performs continuous archiving of PostgreSQL WAL files and base backups, and read replicas restored from s3 or gcs versus reading directly from the primary database.

Have a look at barman, pgBackrest or for maybe WAL-G or WAL-E

I am using the following docker image https://github.com/docker-library/postgres. I want the ability to make regular backups to my S3 bucket. PITR is not necessary but a nice to have. I've tried to use https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e but I've not found something that works very well with docker.

Everything online seems to be very old. For example this: https://github.com/lukesmith/docker-postgres-wale. They are all using a very old version of postgresql. If I try to using something newer like version 12, it doesn't work because the newer images don't allow an easy way to execute scripts after the postgres instance has started. Well, you can execute scripts but scripts that need root access don't work.