Barman

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for remote backups and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers in business-critical environments. It relies on PostgreSQL’s robust and reliable Point In Time Recovery technology, allowing DBAs to remotely manage a complete catalogue of backups and the recovery phase of multiple remote servers – all from one location. Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by EDB.

Barman can be obtained from the EDB repositories or downloaded from any of the resources listed on the project downloads page.

Key capabilities include:

• Remote backup and restore with rsync and the PostgreSQL protocol
• Support for file level incremental backups with rsync
• Retention policy support
• WAL Archive Compression with gzip, bzip2, or pigz
• Backup data verification
• Backup with RPO=0 using a synchronous physical streaming replication connection
• Rate limiting
• Tested with custom WAL sizes

For more about Barman’s features and goals, see https://www.pgbarman.org/about/