PGX is forking pgBackRest as pgxbackup to maintain critical fixes and PostgreSQL compatibility after active development wound down.
Key Takeaways
pgBackRest handles parallel backup/restore, PITR, page-level checksums, encryption, multi-repo support, and archive management – pgxbackup preserves all of this.
PGX commits to critical bug fixes, security patches, and compatibility with each new major PostgreSQL release.
Existing backup repositories and configuration language remain unchanged, so migration is non-breaking.
The fork is named pgxbackup at original author David Steele’s explicit request to avoid carrying the pgBackRest name.
Repository is live at github.com/pgexperts/pgxbackup under the same open-source license; external contributors and PostgreSQL-compatibility patches are welcome.
