# WAL-G

6 Hacker News commenters recommended WAL-G and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source tool for streaming PostgreSQL backups and point-in-time recovery, with cloud storage support and replica catch-up. Critics note a base-backup bug on PG15+ and confusing docs.

## Why people recommend it

- Streaming recovery and replica catch-up (2 comments): "The streaming PITR nature of these won over pgbackrest when we did the analysis ~9 years ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920659)) "Works great for catching up secondary servers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838847))
- Go version improves on wal-e (2 comments): "I must say I'm quite pleased to see how well Go version works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705105)) "wal-g was a much larger improvement over wal-e" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706919))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [pgBackRest](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pgbackrest.md): 32 recommend
- [Barman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/barman.md): 17 recommend
- [Databasus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/databasus.md): 9 recommend
- [Restoredrill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/restoredrill.md): 7 recommend
- [sqlite3_rsync](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlite3-rsync.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "WAL-G", https://hackerapproved.com/p/wal-g/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).