This article was originally published on September 05, 2023
WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release of Barman 3.8.0.
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:
Features:
- The minimum-redundancy option is added to barman-cloud-backup-delete. It allows you to set the minimum number of backups that should always be available.
- Add a new primary_checkpoint_timeout configuration option. This option allows you to define the number of seconds Barman will wait at the end of a backup if no new WAL files are produced before forcing a checkpoint on the primary server.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a race condition in the barman retention policies application. Backup
deletions will now raise a warning if another deletion is in progress
for the requested backup.
- Fix barman-cloud-backup-show man page installation.
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 3.8.0 is available from the EDB website https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/barman.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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