July 16th, 2024

Barman: Implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases

Barman simplifies PostgreSQL disaster recovery by enabling easy online backups. It emphasizes proactive planning, leveraging Point In Time Recovery for precise data restoration. Centralized management and backup cataloging enhance efficiency and collaboration with EnterpriseDB.

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Barman: Implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases

Barman is a tool designed to help companies implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases with high business continuity requirements. It simplifies the process of taking online hot backups of PostgreSQL databases, making it as easy as ordering a coffee. With only half of companies having a database disaster recovery plan in place, Barman emphasizes the importance of acting proactively rather than waiting for a data loss incident. By leveraging PostgreSQL's Point In Time Recovery technology, Barman enables users to recover databases to specific points in time. Additionally, it allows for centralized management of backup and recovery processes across multiple servers from a single location. The tool's backup catalogue feature facilitates the organization, retention, deletion, archiving, and recovery of multiple full backups efficiently. Barman, in collaboration with EnterpriseDB, aims to help secure business critical PostgreSQL databases effectively.

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By @snthpy - 3 months
Interesting. How does this compare to pgBackRest? pgBackrest is just a backup tool and (afaik) doesn't do high availability but it does give me point-in-time backups and restore and I can control multiple clusters from a single point. Those were the main features I picked up from my quick glance at the Barman landing page hence my question.