This article was originally published on January 30, 2023
WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release of Barman 3.4.0.
Backup and Recovery Manager (or Barman) 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 catalog 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.
Highlights of this release:
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Type |
Highlights |
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End-of-Support |
This is the last release of Barman, which will support Python 2, and new features will henceforth require Python 3.6 or later. |
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New Feature |
A new backup_method named snapshot is added. This will create backups by taking snapshots of cloud storage volumes. Only Google Cloud Platform is currently supported; however, support for AWS and Azure will follow in future Barman releases. Note that this feature requires a minimum Python version of 3.7. Please see the Barman manual for more information. |
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New Feature |
Support for snapshot backups is also added to barman-cloud-backup, with minimal support for restoring a snapshot backup added to barman-cloud-restore. |
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New Feature |
A new command barman-cloud-backup-show is added, which displays backup metadata stored in cloud object storage and is analogous to barman show-backup. This is provided so that snapshot metadata can be easily retrieved at restore time; however, it is also a convenient way of inspecting metadata for any backup made with barman-cloud-backup. |
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Bug Fix |
The instructions for installing Barman from RPMs in the docs are updated. |
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Bug Fix |
The formatting of NFS requirements in the docs is fixed. |
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Bug Fix |
Supported PostgreSQL versions are updated in the docs (this is a documentation fix only - the minimum supported major version is still 10). |
This information is also published in the NEWS for Barman.
TELL ME MORE
For more details, please review the Barman documentation:
IS THIS FOR ME?
This announcement is for EDB customers who have a subscription and are either currently using or are interested in Barman.
HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE
Barman 3.4.0 is available from the EDB website https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/barman.
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