Barman

Barman: Open-Source Disaster Recovery and Backup Solution

Barman is an open-source disaster recovery and backup solution for PostgreSQL databases. It performs remote backups of multiple servers, Point-in-Time Recovery, compression, encryption, retention policies, and more.

What is Barman?

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers. It allows remote backups of multiple servers, Point-in-Time Recovery, backup cataloguing, backup compression and encryption, retention policies, and more.

Key features of Barman include:

• Backup from master or standby PostgreSQL servers
• Incremental backup based on WAL files
• Backup compression to save disk space
• Backup encryption using GPG or OpenSSL
• Retention policies to manage number of backups
• Point-in-Time Recovery to restore a database to a specific state
• Recovery testing to validate backups
• Monitoring via Nagios plugins
• Parallel backup and recovery to improve performance

Barman is optimized for larger environments and databases where high performance and scalability are required. It integrates well with continuous archiving and streaming replication in PostgreSQL for near zero downtime backup. The tool is written in Python and is compatible with most Linux distributions.

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