Installation

Available platforms

pgBackRest packages are available on the following platforms.

Debian/Ubuntu

To install pgBackRest, configure the PostgreSQL apt repository and then run:

$ sudo apt-get install pgbackrest

The following additional packages will be installed:

• postgresql-client-common
• postgresql-common

RHEL/CentOS

pgBackRest can be installed from the PostgreSQL yum repository, and requires Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).

Once you configured the repositories, run the following command to install pgBackRest:

$ sudo yum install pgbackrest

The following additional packages may be installed to satisfy the dependencies:

• libpq5
• libzstd

EDB Postgres Advanced Server

The PGDG packages will fetch PostgreSQL libraries and create the postgres system user.

If EDB Postgres Advanced Server is already installed on the system, the libraries installed at that time would be used.

By default, the packages create the following directories owned by postgres:

• /var/lib/pgbackrest
• /var/log/pgbackrest
• /var/spool/pgbackrest

The pg_hba.conf settings should allow the postgres user to execute the pgbackrest command.

If you are using EDB Postgres Advanced Server, the enterprisedb system user will execute the pgbackrest command. The following commands will change the ownership of the pgBackRest directories:

$ sudo chown -R enterprisedb: /var/lib/pgbackrest
$ sudo chown -R enterprisedb: /var/log/pgbackrest
$ sudo chown -R enterprisedb: /var/spool/pgbackrest