Barman 3.0.0 released

23 June 2022: EnterpriseDB is proud to announce the release of Barman version 3.0.0, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

Links

• Website
• Github
• Documentation
• Documentation pdf
• Man page, section 1
• Man page, section 5
• Support

Release Notes

• BREAKING CHANGE: PostgreSQL versions 9.6 and earlier are no longer supported. If you are using one of these versions you will need to use an earlier version of Barman.

• BREAKING CHANGE: The default backup mode for Rsync backups is now concurrent rather than exclusive. Exclusive backups have been deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.6 and have been removed in PostgreSQL 15. If you are running Barman against PostgreSQL versions earlier than 15 and want to use exclusive backups you will now need to set exclusive_backup in backup_options.

• BREAKING CHANGE: The backup metadata stored in the backup.info file for each backup has an extra field. This means that earlier versions of Barman will not work in the presence of any backups taken with 3.0.0. Additionally, users of pg-backup-api will need to upgrade it to version 0.2.0 so that pg-backup-api can work with the updated metadata.

• Backups taken with backup_method = postgres can now be compressed by pg_basebackup by setting the backup_compression config option. Additional options are provided to control the compression level, the backup format and whether the pg_basebackup client or the PostgreSQL server applies the compression. NOTE: Recovery of these backups requires Barman to stage the compressed files on the recovery server in a location specified by the recovery_staging_path option.

• Add support for PostgreSQL 15. Exclusive backups are not supported by PostgreSQL 15 therefore Barman configurations for PostgreSQL 15 servers are not allowed to specify exclusive_backup in backup_options.

• Various documentation improvements.

• Use custom_compression_magic, if set, when identifying compressed WAL files. This allows Barman to correctly identify uncompressed WALs (such as *.partial files in the streaming directory) and return them instead of attempting to decompress them.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fix an ordering bug which caused Barman to log the message “Backup failed issuing start backup command.” while handling a failure in the stop backup command.

  • Fix a bug which prevented recovery using --target-tli when timelines greater than 9 were present, due to hexadecimal values from WAL segment names being parsed as base 10 integers.

  • Fix an import error which occurs when using barman cloud with certain python2 installations due to issues with the enum34 dependency.

  • Fix a bug where Barman would not read more than three bytes from a compressed WAL when attempting to identify the magic bytes. This means that any custom compressed WALs using magic longer than three bytes are now decompressed correctly.

  • Fix a bug which caused the --immediate-checkpoint flag to be ignored during backups with backup_method = rsync.

Download

Source code and wheel file can be downloaded from release 3.0.0 page.

• RPM repositories
• Deb repositories
• PyPI
• PDF documentation

About Barman

Barman is an open-source administration tool for backup and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows organizations to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and help DBAs during the recovery phase.

Barman is maintained by EnterpriseDB and distributed under GPL v3.