pgmoneta is a backup / restore solution for PostgreSQL.

pgmoneta is named after the Roman Goddess of Memory.

• Full backup
• Incremental backup (PostgreSQL 14+)
• Restore
• Compression (gzip, zstd, lz4, bzip2)
• AES encryption support
• Symlink support
• WAL shipping support
• Hot standby
• Prometheus support
• Remote management
• Offline detection
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.2+ support
• Daemon mode
• User vault

• User guide
• Developer guide
• Getting Started
• Configuration

pgmoneta makes use of

• Process model
• Shared memory model across processes
• libev for fast network interactions
• Atomic operations are used to keep track of state

See Architecture for the architecture of pgmoneta.

• Fedora 38+
• RHEL 9.x
• Rocky Linux 9.x
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD

pgmoneta requires

• clang
• cmake
• make
• libev
• OpenSSL
• zlib
• zstd
• lz4
• bzip2
• systemd
• rst2man
• libssh
• libarchive
• pandoc
• texlive

dnf install git gcc clang clang-analyzer clang-tools-extra cmake make libev libev-devel openssl openssl-devel systemd systemd-devel zlib zlib-devel libzstd libzstd-devel lz4 lz4-devel libssh libssh-devel python3-docutils libatomic bzip2 bzip2-devel libarchive libarchive-devel libasan libasan-static

Alternative gcc can be used.

The following commands will install pgmoneta in the /usr/local hierarchy.

git clone https://github.com/pgmoneta/pgmoneta.git
cd pgmoneta
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
make
sudo make install

See RPM for how to build a RPM of pgmoneta.

The following commands will create a DEBUG version of pgmoneta.

git clone https://github.com/pgmoneta/pgmoneta.git
cd pgmoneta
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
make

Remember to set the log_level configuration option to debug5.

Contributions to pgmoneta are managed on GitHub.com

• Ask a question
• Raise an issue
• Feature request
• Code submission

Contributions are most welcome !

Please, consult our Code of Conduct policies for interacting in our community.

Consider giving the project a star on GitHub if you find it useful. And, feel free to follow the project on X as well.

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