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title: "Keeping pgBackRest Open, Healthy, and Community Driven"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-pgbackrest-open-healthy-and-community-driven-g1tjdqi9v
source_url: https://www.percona.com/blog/keeping-pgbackrest-open-healthy-and-community-driven
type: article
source: "Percona Blog"
published: 2026-05-31T07:44:28.776Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:00:22.846Z
tags: ["postgresql"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Keeping pgBackRest Open, Healthy, and Community Driven

**[Percona Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/percona)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

When pgBackRest's future became uncertain due to maintainership challenges, Percona and the broader PostgreSQL ecosystem coordinated a collaborative response. Rather than seeking replacements or forks, the community focused on sustaining the existing project through coordinated funding, expanded maintainer participation, and engineering contributions from multiple organizations. The post frames this as a model for how open source ecosystems should handle critical infrastructure sustainability, and calls for stronger long-term structures — such as an ecosystem foundation — to protect community-relied-upon projects.

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