Barman

Barman is the ideal solution for database admins running PostgreSQL.

It provides lots of tools and features for ensuring a PostgreSQL database's data won't get lost due to various reasons and errors ranging from natural disasters to hardware problems.

What is new in this release:

• Fix for WAL archival stop working if first backup is EMPTY.
• Fix exception during error handling in Barman recovery.
• After a backup, limit cron activity to WAL archiving only.
• Improved robustness and error reporting of the backup delete command.
• Fix computation of WAL production ratio as reported in the show-backup command.
• Improved management of xlogb file, which is now correctly fsynced when updated. Also, the rebuild-xlogdb command now operates on a temporary new file, which overwrites the main one when finished.
• Add unit tests for dateutil module compatibility.
• Modified Barman version following PEP 440 rules and added support of tests in Python 3.4.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• Fix for WAL archival stop working if first backup is EMPTY.
• Fix exception during error handling in Barman recovery.
• After a backup, limit cron activity to WAL archiving only.
• Improved robustness and error reporting of the backup delete command.
• Fix computation of WAL production ratio as reported in the show-backup command.
• Improved management of xlogb file, which is now correctly fsynced when updated. Also, the rebuild-xlogdb command now operates on a temporary new file, which overwrites the main one when finished.
• Add unit tests for dateutil module compatibility.
• Modified Barman version following PEP 440 rules and added support of tests in Python 3.4.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Added the 'recover' command which performs local recovery of a given backup, allowing DBAs to specify a point in time. The 'recover' command supports relocation of both the PGDATA directory and, where applicable, the tablespaces.
• Added the '--remote-ssh-command' option to the 'recover' command for remote recovery of a backup. Remote recovery does not currently support relocation of tablespaces.
• Added the 'list-server' command that lists all the active servers that have been configured in Barman.
• Added the 'show-server' command that shows the relevant information for a given server, including all configuration options.
• Added the 'status' command which shows information about the current state of a server, including Postgres version, current transaction ID, archive command, etc..
• Added the 'check' command which returns 0 if everything Barman needs is functioning correctly.
• Added the 'list-backup' command that lists all the available backups for a given server, including size of the base backup and total size of the related WAL segments.
• Added the 'show-backup' command that shows the relevant information for a given backup, including time of start, size, number of related WAL segments and their size, etc..
• Added the 'delete' command which removes a backup from the catalog.
• Added the 'list-files' command which lists all the files for a single backup.
• RPM Package for RHEL 5/6.

Requirements:

• PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher
• Python 2.6.x and 2.7.x
• rsync 3.0.4 or higher