PostgreSQL Backup & Replication Guide: WAL Basics to Production‑Ready HA, DR, and Recovery
This comprehensive guide walks through PostgreSQL's backup and replication architecture, explaining WAL fundamentals, the distinction between backup, high‑availability, disaster‑recovery and CDC, and provides step‑by‑step configurations, performance trade‑offs, monitoring queries, Kubernetes deployment tips, and practical recovery‑drill procedures for production environments.
