diff --git a/dev-db/pgbackrest/Manifest b/dev-db/pgbackrest/Manifest
index 3c5b8046..485e6eed 100644
--- a/dev-db/pgbackrest/Manifest
+++ b/dev-db/pgbackrest/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST pgbackrest-2.26.tar.gz 5354188 BLAKE2B 96e5b76e131d3f682a85abcc4db6a9df6ce085871c903b5b4608cb88dae40444197a4d113da22cc5447d9bd9f5727f0e27a922b6c1a0c5d4357a752dc2aa424e SHA512 76c677ff76f28fda940f1464adf6531388aec1baf27f8e98eae0f2fd87cc3e4424b329a686f54922cf9868759accbacead937f838ec7b642ff9d3f898b3ed433
 DIST pgbackrest-2.38.tar.gz 5770696 BLAKE2B 43887fc2af517a36deb5f58594c150996516c7e19980b2e935ceb9369085d2d653ec42ec269249708369a07161058c68877179487a856d04bc065e51c71e7693 SHA512 84cd67a4b4d17f6a7c71a34335c2ccf9f94fda0c2b6c01a55e3504d4426539073d17e61f243e158867ba8f5058d427e64707db9aa795daa498214c7cbd6a1746
+DIST pgbackrest-2.53.tar.gz 2693089 BLAKE2B c8f992cf065b8c7538298aad8186623039d5df57e8e7b6bfb66aa6d72f97b4ed7db7bdd9da31e20ae4a1bcaaf8e9b9d535cc0ce5736835731926d6b02ed2338e SHA512 0778837f784a534149ef96d7124a70c040090b52100f23d649696ceb972b05cc77a675c69728eb0609d9578c7eed7ab6bc0f46e79b9b3ed259657071e569f2ee
diff --git a/dev-db/pgbackrest/pgbackrest-2.53.ebuild b/dev-db/pgbackrest/pgbackrest-2.53.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0ee812b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-db/pgbackrest/pgbackrest-2.53.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Simple, reliable, scalable backup solution to postgres"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pgbackrest.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/archive/release/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+SLOT="0"
+
+# Docs depend on XML::Checker::Parser. Skip for now
+#IUSE="doc"
+
+DEPEND="
+	acct-group/postgres
+	acct-user/postgres
+	>=dev-db/postgresql-9.0:=
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	app-arch/lz4
+	app-arch/bzip2
+	dev-libs/openssl
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	>=app-arch/zstd-1.0
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="dev-libs/libyaml"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-release-${PV}/src"
+
+src_install() {
+	# install base configuration
+	dodir /etc/"${PN}"
+	insinto /etc/"${PN}"
+	insopts -o postgres -g postgres
+	doins "${FILESDIR}"/pgbackrest.conf
+	# user postgres should exist implicitly by dev-db/postgresql
+	diropts -m 0775 -g postgres
+	keepdir /var/log/"${PN}"
+	# async wal archiving requires a spooler directory
+	keepdir /var/spool/"${PN}"
+
+	insopts -o root -g root
+	insinto /etc/logrotate.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.logrotate" ${PN}
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.initd" ${PN}
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.confd" ${PN}
+
+	default
+}