Version 1.1.2 of Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. This minor release includes: Support for the “configuration_files_directory” option that allows to include multiple server configuration files from a directory Support for special backup IDs: latest, last, oldest, first Management of multiple servers to the […]
Barman 1.1.2 released
/0 Comments/in Barman, International News /by Gabriele BartoliniVersion 1.1.2 of Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. This minor release includes: Support for the “configuration_files_directory” option that allows to include multiple server configuration files from a directory Support for special backup IDs: latest, last, oldest, first Management of multiple servers to the […]
Managing the backup of several PostgreSQL servers with Barman
/2 Comments/in Barman, Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniOne of the key aspects of Barman is the possibility to remotely backup multiple PostgreSQL servers from one single backup host. The upcoming version 1.1.2 of Barman will make this much easier from a system administrator’s point of view. Let’s see why.
79 real attendees at the Italian PGDay
/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniThe sixth edition of the Italian PGDay took place in Prato at the Monash University Centre last Friday, November 23rd. As president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group (most likely for the last time) and host of Prato, I had the pleasure to open the event and welcome all the attendees – coming from 11 […]
During installation, cluster initialisation fails with the message “No error” on Windows
/5 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerToday I ran into another strange issue with PostgreSQL installation on Windows. It turned out not to be a problem with the installer; instead it was a form of broken Windows installation that I hadn’t seen before, so I thought I’d write it up. The installer already contains checks for several kinds of broken Windows […]
Improving PostgreSQL performance on AWS EC2
/10 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerQuestions periodically come up on the PostgreSQL mailing list regarding Amazon EC2 and how to get PostgreSQL to perform well on it. The general feeling on the list appears to have been that EC2 performs very poorly for database workloads, at least with PostgreSQL, and it doesn’t seem to be taken particularly seriously as a […]
Barman 1.1.1 packages available for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
/1 Comment/in Barman /by Marco NenciariniBarman 1.1.1 was released few days ago, but until now it wasn’t available for Ubuntu 12.04. Now, you can simply add the below PPA to get the latest version of Barman in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This quick tutorial will show you how to add Barman Official PPA in Ubuntu 12.04. Objectives: Add Barman Official […]
My “top 5” for PGConf.eu in Prague
/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniI have just returned from the breath-taking Prague for the 5th edition of the European conference of PostgreSQL, now called PGConf.eu. The “baby” once called PGDay has now grown into a 4 day conference with training, talks and social events.
Released Barman 1.1.1
/0 Comments/in Barman /by Gabriele Bartolini2ndQuadrant announces the release of Barman 1.1.1. This minor version fixes a small bug with the “barman recover” command, introduced with version 1.1.0. Barman users are encouraged to update their systems to this version, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net.
Barman 1.1.0
/1 Comment/in Barman /by Gabriele BartoliniVersion 1.1.0 is the second release of Barman. Debian/Ubuntu packages are now available as well.
Barman explained in a 83 seconds spot
/3 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniOn the dawn of the release of version 1.1.0 of Barman, we are proud to publish our first video/spot for the promotion of our open source tool. The goal of the video is to emphasize the importance of physical hot backups and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases operating in business critical environments. One of […]