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Barman

Barman (sometimes referred to as PgBarman or pg_barman) is a utility for managing PostgreSQL backups and WAL file archiving.

Barman was originally developed by 2ndQuadrant and is now maintained by EnterpriseDB. It is available under the GPL v3 license. It was first released in 2012.

Release history

This is a summary of the major point releases; for a full and detailed list of releases, see the Barman release page and the release notes.

• 2.15 (2021-10-12, release notes)
  • following commands now accept the plural form, with singular forms retained for backwards compatibility (commit 0016ad23):
    • list-backups
    • list-servers
    • show-servers
  • last-failed backup alias added (commit 4b50134f)
• 2.14 (2021-09-22, release notes)
  • barman-cloud-backup-delete command added (commit e20d7abe)
  • existing backups can be tagged as archival backups using barman keep and barman-cloud-backup-keep (commit 0fe356aa)
  • SAS authentication tokens created at the restricted blob container level can be used for Azure blob storage (commit a1a993e8)
  • significantly speed up barman restore into an empty directory for backups which contain a very large number of files (commit a9d87b6d)
• 2.13 (2021-07-26, release notes)
  
  • Azure blob storage support added to barman-cloud (commit d2afcec1)
  • support for tablespace remapping in barman-cloud-restore via --tablespace name:location added (commit 03ddced3)
  • barman-cloud-wal-archive can run as a pre-/post-archive hook script (commit 6d168a8d)
  • barman-cloud-backup can run as a post-backup hook script (commit 6d6f9a04)
• 2.12 (2020-11-05, release notes)
  • new backup_method option local-rsync (commit 26218640)
• 2.11 (2020-07-09, release notes)
  • addition of separate barman-cli-cloud package for cloud utilities (see also: "Barman 2.11: barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore")
• 2.10 (2019-12-02, release notes)
  • support for the database system identifier added (commit 4e2b387e; see also: "Support for PostgreSQL’s System identifier in Barman")
  • support for fetching .partial WAL files with get-wal and barman-wal-restore (commit ec1cffda; see also: "Barman 2.10 - Recovery of partial WAL files")
  • barman-cli: script barman-cloud-wal-archive for shipping WAL files to AWS S3-compatible services (commit 0d2b52b1; see also: "Barman Cloud - Part 1: WAL Archive")
  • barman-cli: script barman-cloud-backup for shipping base backups to AWS S3-compatible services (commit 812cd8a1)
  • configuration option create_slot for automatic creation of replication slots (commit 4a7aa181)
  • option -w/--wait added to barman backup command (commit a263c8ab)
• 2.9 (2019-07-27, release notes)
  • PostgreSQL 12 support (commit 84396b1f)
  • option --bwlimit added for backup and recover commands (commit 4d23f4e9)
  • option --target-lsn added for recover command (commit d8f323cd)
  • option --spool-dir added for barman-wal-restore command (commit f7a7da34)
  • option -f/--format (default: console) providing experimental JSON output writer for exporting command output as JSON objects (commit 12d36871)
  • barman_xlog directory renamed to barman_wal (commit 842f8579)
• 2.8 (2019-05-15, release notes)
• 2.7 (2019-03-20, release notes)
• 2.6 (2019-02-01, release notes)
• 2.5 (2018-10-22, release notes)
• 2.4 (2018-05-25, release notes)
• 2.3 (2017-09-05, release notes)
• 2.2 (2017-07-17, release notes)
  • support for parallel copy added (see also: "Barman 2.2 and the magic of parallel copy")
• 2.1 (2017-01-05, release notes)
• 2.0 (2016-09-27, release notes)
• 1.6.0 (2016-02-26, release notes)
• 1.5.0 (2015-09-26, release notes)
• 1.4.0 (2015-01-24, release notes)
• 1.3.0 (2014-02-03, release notes)
• 1.2.0 (2013-01-31, release notes)
• 1.1.0 (2012-10-13, release notes)
• 1.0.0 (2012-07-06, release notes)

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