Barman 2.7 released
21 March 2019: 2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of Barman version 2.7, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.
This is a bugfix release fixes various bugs in backup parallel copy, geo redundancy usability and UTF-8 input/output handling.
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
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Fix error handling during the parallel backup. Previously an unrecoverable error during the copy could have corrupted the barman internal state, requiring a manual kill of barman process with SIGTERM and a manual cleanup of the running backup in PostgreSQL. (GH#199)
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Fix support of UTF-8 characters in input and output (GH#194 and GH#196)
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Ignore history/backup/partial files for first sync of geo-redundancy (GH#198)
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Fix network failure with geo-redundancy causing cron to break (GH#202)
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Fix backup validation in PostgreSQL older than 9.2
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Various documentation fixes