Webinar | Disaster Recovery in PostgreSQL: What Every Oracle DBA Needs to Know

On October 9, Umair Shahid led an in-depth session on disaster recovery (DR) in PostgreSQL, designed specifically for Oracle DBAs, in collaboration with our partners at Dbvisit.

If you’re familiar with Oracle’s DR concepts like RMAN restores and archived redo logs but new to PostgreSQL, or managing both environments. This webinar helps bridge the gap and build your confidence in planning, testing, and executing PostgreSQL disaster recovery.

Following topics were covered:

• → Why DR is different in PostgreSQL vs. Oracle
  → DR vs HA – key distinctions and overlaps in PostgreSQL
  → Common assumptions Oracle DBAs bring and how PostgreSQL handles them differently
  → Understanding RPO, RTO, PITR, switchover, and failover in PostgreSQL
  → Mapping PostgreSQL DR concepts to familiar Oracle equivalents like RMAN restores
  → Testing and validating your DR plan
  → Backup strategies – physical vs logical, WAL archiving, and continuous archiving
  → Lessons learned from real-world production incidents

About the Speaker

Umair Shahid

Umair Shahid helps teams keep PostgreSQL fast, reliable, and resilient at any scale.

As the founder of Stormatics, he leads a team of PostgreSQL experts who step in when in-house teams need help with performance, uptime, or scaling, without requiring internal hires. With years of experience managing critical production databases, Umair and his team utilize proven tools from the PostgreSQL ecosystem to enhance reliability and lower costs. Whether it involves fixing slow queries, setting up high-availability clusters, or implementing disaster recovery, his team ensures PostgreSQL scales efficiently with business growth.

Recognized as a trusted expert in the global PostgreSQL community, he regularly shares his knowledge at leading conferences such as FOSDEM, SCaLE, and PGConf across the US and Europe. He also delivers live trainings and webinars to hundreds of attendees each month and authors in-depth technical blogs that attract over 10,000 monthly readers.