See the documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup.html
all of these various 3rd party backup tools use these things. Mostly it's QOL stuff that you get from a 3rd party tool. We use barman, very happily: https://pgbarman.org/
Hopefully barman has some longevity being under EDB assuming some hyperscaler doesn't gobble them up
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