Barman 3.15 Released

Release Announcement

Barman 3.15

WHAT’S NEW

This update is notifying you of a new software release of Barman.

Backup and Recovery Manager (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 the GNU GPL 3 license and maintained by EDB.

Highlights of this release include:

NOTABLE CHANGES

- Allow incremental backups to be taken with compression and encryption
- Deprecate local_staging_path and recovery_staging_path configuration options
- Improve flexibility and consistency of staging area configuration
- Barman now provides a single, unified, and more flexible staging area configuration

MINOR CHANGES

- Add --staging-path and --staging-location to barman restore
- Add option --if-not-exists to barman receive-wal --create-slot
- Fail gracefully when an unexpected field is found in the backup metadata.
- Improve orphan backup warning for proper cleanup
- Improve tag handling in cloud commands to fix parsing errors
- Clarify WAL Number label in barman show-backup output
- Change “No of files” to “Number of files” in show-backup command
- Validate options passed for servers and models through config-update
- Add --check-timeout argument to barman check and barman backup commands
- Add --list-empty-directories to barman list-files command
- Improve archiving check with automatic WAL switching and archiving
- Support shortcuts as backup IDs in Barman cloud scripts

BUGFIXES

- Ignore data files of temporary tables during backups
- Improve error message when pg_combinebackup is not found
- Fail on restore if the target data or tablespace directories are not empty.
- Fix errors when deleting orphaned and obsolete backups
- Ensure correct WAL segment naming for PG17 boundary LSNs
- Snapshot Backup Now Supports Non-Root EBS Volumes of Nitro instances on AWS

TELL ME MORE

For more details, please review the Release Notes for Barman: https://docs.pgbarman.org/release/3.15/releases/index.html.

IS THIS FOR ME?

This announcement is for EDB customers who are using, or are interested in Barman and have a subscription plan purchased for:

HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE

Barman 3.15 is available from the EDB website at https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/barman.
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TROUBLESHOOTING

If you experience any problems around the installation, migration, upgrade or general use of your EDB software please contact our Technical Support teams.

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