As compared to other backup solutions, pg_probackup offers the following benefits that can help you implement different backup strategies and deal with large amounts of data:

- Incremental backup: page-level incremental backup allows yousave to disk space, speed up backup and restore. With three different incremental modes you can plan the backup strategy in accordance with your data flow

- Incremental backup: page-level incremental backup allows youto save disk space, speed up backup and restore. With three different incremental modes you can plan the backup strategy in accordance with your data flow

- Validation: Automatic data consistency checks and on-demand backup validation without actual data recovery

- Verification: On-demand verification of PostgreSQL instance via dedicated command`checkdb`

- Retention: Managing backups in accordance with retention policies - Time and/or Redundancy based, with two retention methods:`delete expired` and`merge expired`

Specifies pg_probackup installation directory on the remote system.

Specifies a string of SSH command-line options.

Specifies a string of SSH command-line options. For example, the following options can used to set keep-alive for ssh connections opened by pg_probackup:`--ssh-options='-o ServerAliveCountMax=5 -o ServerAliveInterval=60'`. Full list of possible options can be found here: (https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config)[https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config]