User Guide#
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 is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by EnterpriseDB, a platinum sponsor of the PostgreSQL project.
- Concepts
- Installing
- Quick start
- Architectural backup designs with barman
- Pre-requisites
- Barman check
- Backups
- Overview
- Incremental Backups
- Managing Bandwidth Usage
- Network Compression
- Backup Compression
- Backup Encryption
- Immediate Checkpoint
- Streaming Backup
- Backup with Rsync through SSH
- Concurrent Backup of a Standby
- Managing external configuration files
- Using an immutable storage for backups
- Cloud Snapshot Backups
- WAL archiving
- Catalog information
- Recovery
- Local recovery
- Remote Recovery
- Tablespace Remapping
- Point-in-Time Recovery
- Fetching WALs from Barman
- Recovering Encrypted Backups
- Recovering Compressed Backups
- Recovering block-level incremental Backups
- Limitations of .partial WAL files
- Managing external configuration files
- Recovering from Snapshot Backups
- Retention policies
- Diagnose and troubleshooting
- Configuration Reference
- Commands Reference
barman- Shortcuts
- Exit Statuses
- Sub-Commands
barman archive-walbarman backupbarman check-backupbarman checkbarman config-switchbarman config-updatebarman cronbarman deletebarman diagnosebarman generate-manifestbarman get-walbarman keepbarman list-backupsbarman list-filesbarman list-processesbarman list-serversbarman lock-directory-cleanupbarman put-walbarman rebuild-xlogdbbarman recoverbarman receive-walbarman restorebarman replication-statusbarman show-backupbarman show-serversbarman statusbarman switch-walbarman switch-xlogbarman sync-backupbarman sync-infobarman sync-walsbarman terminate-processbarman verify-backupbarman verify
barman-clicommands
- Geographical Redundancy
- Hook Scripts
- Barman for the cloud
- Glossary