Database Backup Strategies: Full, Incremental, and PITR
Learn database backup strategies: full, incremental, and differential backups. Point-in-time recovery, WAL archiving, and RTO/RPO planning.
Posts tagged with #operations
Database Capacity Planning: A Practical Guide
Plan for growth before you hit walls. This guide covers growth forecasting, compute and storage sizing, IOPS requirements, and cloud vs on-prem decisions.
Failover Automation
Automatic failover patterns. Health checks, failure detection, split-brain prevention, and DNS TTL management during database failover.
Vacuuming and Reindexing in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL's MVCC requires regular maintenance. This guide explains dead tuples, VACUUM vs VACUUM FULL, autovacuum tuning, REINDEX strategies, and how to monitor bloat with pg_stat_user_tables.