.. _glossary: Glossary ======== .. glossary:: AWS Amazon Web Services Barman Backup and Recovery Manager. DBA Database Administrator. DEB Debian Package. GCP Google Cloud Platform IAC Infrastructure As Code ICT Information and Communication Technology. libpq The C application programmer's interface to Postgres. libpq is a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the Postgres backend server and to receive the results of these queries. PGDG Postgres Global Development Group. PITR Point-in-time Recovery. RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RPM Red Hat Package Manager. RPO Recovery Point Objective. The maximum targeted period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident. In summary, it represents the maximum amount of data you can afford to lose. SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SPOF Single Point of Failure VLDB Very Large DataBase