This article was originally published on October 04, 2023
WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release of Barman 3.9.0.
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:
- barman switch-walAllow --force to be run against PG>=14 if the
user has the pg_checkpoint role. - Log the current check at info level when a check timeout occurs.
- The minimum size of an upload chunk when using barman-cloud-backup
with either S3 or Azure Blob Storage can now be specified using the
--min-chunk-size option. - backup_compression = none is supported when using pg_basebackup.
- For PostgreSQL 15 and later: the allowed backup_compression_level
values for zstd and lz4 have been updated to match those allowed by
pg_basebackup. - For PostgreSQL versions earlier than 15: backup_compression_level = 0
can now be used with backup_compression = gzip
Bug fixes:
- Fix barman recover on platforms where Multiprocessing uses spawn by default when starting new processes.
- 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 3.9.0 is available from the EDB website https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/barman.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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