Reliable backup and restore strategies are critical for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery in database environments. For SQL Server experts exploring PostgreSQL, understanding the fundamental differences in how these systems handle backups is essential. This session will compare the backup and restore mechanisms of SQL Server and PostgreSQL, focusing on full, differential, and transaction log backups, as well as point-in-time recovery workflows. Aimed at database administrators and developers, the presentation will highlight how each system approaches backup granularity, recovery models, and tooling to support resilient operations.

For example, did you know that:

-SQL Server supports per-database full, differential, and transaction log backups, while PostgreSQL’s native physical backups operate at the cluster level.
-SQL Server’s differential backups track changes since the last full backup, whereas PostgreSQL relies on continuous Write-Ahead Log (WAL) archiving for incremental recovery.
-SQL Server provides integrated backup and restore commands, while PostgreSQL depends on external utilities.