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Barman 2.11: barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore

July 21, 2020/2 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Anna's PlanetPostgreSQL, Barman, DevOps, PostgreSQL /by Anna Bellandi

Thanks to the new utilities barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore introduced in Barman 2.11, it is now possible to execute the recovery of a PostgreSQL instance using a full backup previously executed using barman-cloud-wal-archive and barman-cloud-backup commands. Let’s discover together how to implement this in the following article.

Barman Cloud – Part 2: Cloud Backup

July 16, 2020/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Anna's PlanetPostgreSQL, Barman, DevOps, PostgreSQL /by Anna Bellandi

In the first part of this blog, Jonathan explained how the barman-wal-archive command works. Now, assuming you followed those instructions, you have a properly configured PostgreSQL instance up and running. In this second part, I will show you how the barman-cloud-backup command works.

Backup manifests and pg_verifybackup in PostgreSQL 13

May 4, 2020/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

PostgreSQL 13 introduces two useful features to enhance automated validation of physical backups: backup manifests and a new tool called pg_verifybackup. In this short article I attempt to provide an overview of them.

Support for PostgreSQL’s System identifier in Barman

January 9, 2020/3 Comments/in Florins PlanetPostgreSQL /by Florin Irion

The latest Barman 2.10 release introduces support for the system identifier of a PostgreSQL instance. In this article, I will answer a few questions explaining what a system identifier is and why it is a good thing that Barman uses it. What is the PostgreSQL system identifier? PostgreSQL gives a unique system identifier to every […]

Barman 2.10 – Recovery of partial WAL files

December 11, 2019/0 Comments/in Anna's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Anna Bellandi

Being a PostgreSQL database administrator and managing backups on a daily basis, one of the new features of Barman 2.10 that I liked the most is the transparent management of .partial WAL files during recovery. And, most likely, you feel the same if you have been using Barman with WAL streaming and have been asked […]

Geo-redundancy of PostgreSQL database backups with Barman

February 19, 2019/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

Barman 2.6 introduces support for geo-redundancy, meaning that Barman can now copy from another Barman instance, not just a PostgreSQL database.

The Barman is ready for PostgreSQL 10

September 6, 2017/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

Today our Devops team at 2ndQuadrant, led by my dear friend and trusted colleague Marco Nenciarini, released version 2.3 of Barman.

Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 3

August 4, 2017/0 Comments/in DevOps, Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

In Part 3 of this series (here are Part 1 and Part 2), I would like to demonstrate how the development of a new feature for Barman would flow through the Kanban board.

Barman 2.2 and the magic of parallel copy

July 18, 2017/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele Bartolini

Barman 2.2 introduces support for parallel copy, by improving performance of both backup and recovery operations in your PostgreSQL disaster recovery solution.

Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 2

June 8, 2017/0 Comments/in DevOps /by Gabriele Bartolini

In Part 2 of this series, we will continue our journey within the developmental dynamics of the Barman open source project for PostgreSQL database backup and disaster recovery. After providing a small introduction to devops and Kanban in Part 1, let’s focus on the basic element of our daily management: The Boards.

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Backup manifests and pg_verifybackup in PostgreSQL 13

Support for PostgreSQL’s System identifier in Barman

Barman 2.10 – Recovery of partial WAL files

Geo-redundancy of PostgreSQL database backups with Barman

The Barman is ready for PostgreSQL 10

Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 3

Barman 2.2 and the magic of parallel copy

Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 2

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