.. _user_guide:

User Guide
==========

:term:`Barman` is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of
Postgres servers written in Python. It allows your organisation to perform remote
backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help
DBAs during the recovery phase.

`Barman <https://www.pgbarman.org/>`_ is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by
`EnterpriseDB <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>`_, a platinum sponsor of the
`PostgreSQL project <https://www.postgresql.org/>`_.


.. toctree::

   concepts
   installation
   quickstart
   architectures
   pre_requisites
   barman_check
   backup
   wal_archiving
   catalog
   recovery
   retention_policies
   diagnose_and_troubleshooting
   configuration
   commands
   geographical_redundancy
   hook_scripts
   barman_cloud
   glossary