Barman 2.1 released

2ndQuadrant announces the release of Barman version 2.1, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release fixes a few bugs. It also introduces the --archive option to the switch-xlog command, in order to help users during the installation process of a new server.

For a complete list of changes, see the “Release Notes” section below.

Links

• Website
• Download
• Documentation
• Man page, section 1
• Man page, section 5
• Support
• Client utilities for Barman
• pgespresso extension

Release notes

• Add --archive and --archive-timeout options to switch-xlog command

• Preliminary support for PostgreSQL 10 (#73)

• Minor additions:

  • Add last archived WAL info to diagnose output
  • Add start time and execution time to the output of delete command

• Minor bug fixes:

  • Return failure for get-wal command on inactive server
  • Make streaming_archiver_names and streaming_backup_name options global (#57)
  • Fix rsync failures due to files truncated during transfer (#64)
  • Correctly handle compressed history files (#66)
  • Avoid de-referencing symlinks in pg_tblspc when preparing recovery (#55)
  • Fix comparison of last archiving failure (#40, #58)
  • Avoid failing recovery if postgresql.conf is not writable (#68)
  • Fix output of replication-status command (#56)
  • Exclude files from backups like pg_basebackup (#65, #72)
  • Exclude directories from other Postgres versions while copying tablespaces (#74)

Download

• Release Notes
• Sources
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 5 (dependencies)
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6 (dependencies)
• RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 7 (dependencies)
• PyPI
• pgespresso on PostgreSQL Extension framework (PGXN)
• pgespresso RPM/Debian packages
• barman-cli RPM/Debian packages
• Online documentation
• PDF documentation