# Notes from the desk of the operator

> Field reports, design decisions, and the occasional obituary. Roughly fortnightly, when there is something worth writing down.

URL: https://bkpdb.com/blog/



## Pages in this section

- [Streaming a terabyte without buffering it](https://bkpdb.com/blog/streaming-a-terabyte/index.md) (2026-05-18): How the bkpdb agent moves a Postgres dump from a running database into encrypted object storage in constant memory, and the traps that almost broke it along the way.
- [What's actually inside your Postgres data directory](https://bkpdb.com/blog/inside-pgdata/index.md) (2026-05-12): PGDATA looks like a folder full of cryptic short names. It is in fact the entire database. A tour, directory by directory, and the reasons a backup company ended up reading every one of them.
- [Why we restore every backup, every week](https://bkpdb.com/blog/why-we-restore-every-backup/index.md) (2026-04-22): A schedule that completes is not a backup that works. What we found when we started actually trying the snapshots we had been quietly producing for months.