# Backup reports

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-reports/8267>\
**Category:** PostgreSQL General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-reports/8267 "2020-11-11T11:58:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![skiz79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@skiz79](https://forums.percona.com/u/skiz79)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-reports/8267/1 "2020-11-11T11:58:33Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to setup reports for my daily backups of Postgres DBs. Is there such a feature in PMM?

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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-reports/8267/2 "2020-11-12T03:14:39Z")

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Hi,

PMM is based on metrics provided by exporters. But postgresql\_exporter isn’t collecting any metric related to DB backups.

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**Author:** ![Jobin\_Augustine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jobin_augustine/32/1275_2.png) [@Jobin\_Augustine](https://forums.percona.com/u/Jobin_Augustine)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-reports/8267/3 "2021-01-08T13:02:25Z")

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The crux of the problem is that PostgreSQL won’t have any information about backups. because backups are external to PostgreSQL database. So a “PostgreSQL monitoring” tool won’t have any information about backups.  
Moreover, PostgreSQL community / ecosystem has a large number of the backup solution. at Percona we recommend pgBackRest, but other backup solutions are also equally good. The source of information is specific to each backup tool and its backup repository.  
For example, pgBackRest can give information from its backup repository with its “info” command