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/usr/bin/wal-g

PostgreSQL support for wal-g

From wal-g-pg 3.0.9-r14 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running wal-g --help (exit 0). permalink

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PostgreSQL backup tool

Usage:
wal-g [command]

Available Commands:
backup-fetch    Fetches a backup from storage
backup-list     Prints full list of backups from which recovery is available
backup-mark     Marks a backup permanent or impermanent
backup-push     Makes backup and uploads it to storage
catchup-fetch   Fetches an incremental backup from storage
catchup-list    Prints available incremental backups
catchup-push    Creates incremental backup from lsn
catchup-receive Receive an incremental backup from another instance
catchup-send    Sends incremental backup to standby
completion      Output shell completion code for the specified shell
copy            copy specific or all backups
daemon          Runs WAL-G in daemon mode which executes commands sent from the lightweight walg-daemon-client.
delete          Clears old backups and WALs
flags           Display the list of available global flags for all wal-g commands
help            Help about any command
pgbackrest      Interact with pgbackrest backups (beta)
st              (DANGEROUS) Storage tools
wal-fetch       Fetches a WAL file from storage
wal-push        Uploads a WAL file to storage
wal-receive     Receive WAL stream with postgres Streaming Replication Protocol and push to storage
wal-restore     Restores WAL segments from storage.
wal-show        Show storage WAL segments info grouped by timelines.
wal-verify      Verify WAL storage folder. Available checks: integrity, timeline.

Flags:
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.walg.json, can also be set via WALG_CONFIG_PATH env var)
  -h, --help            help for wal-g
      --turbo           Ignore all kinds of throttling defined in config
  -v, --version         version for wal-g

To get the complete list of all global flags, run: 'wal-g flags'

Use "wal-g [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
--config stringconfig file (default is $HOME/.walg.json, can also be set via WALG_CONFIG_PATH env var)help
-h, --helphelp for wal-ghelp
--turboIgnore all kinds of throttling defined in confighelp
-v, --versionversion for wal-ghelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.