PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook
by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala, Sheldon Strauch
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The article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme gives further useful information on this.
When thinking about incremental backups, you should note that replication techniques work by continually applying changes to a full backup. This could be considered a technique for an incremental updated backup, also known as an incremental forever backup strategy. The changes are applied ahead of time so that you can restore easily and quickly. You should still take a backup, but you can take it from the replication standby instead.
It's possible to write a utility that takes a differential backup of data blocks. You can read each data block and check the block's LSN to see whether it has changed in comparison to a previous ...
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