Barman 1.3.1 released

14 April 2014: 2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of
version 1.3.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release introduces support for concurrent backup using
physical file based copy through rsync, in conjunction with
pgespresso, a new open source extension available for PostgreSQL 9.2
and 9.3. Concurrent backup allows database administrators that rely
on Barman, to finally offload backup operations to a streaming
replicated standby server, opening new important scenarios in
disaster recovery architectures of PostgreSQL 9.2+ database servers.

The "barman diagnose" command has been implemented to print important
information about the system and the configuration of Barman,
allowing users to provide detailed diagnostics data in case of
support requests.

Version 1.3.1 fixes an important bug on recovery that was affecting
only those users having tablespaces created inside the PGDATA
directory. This behaviour was introduced in version 1.3.0.

Minor bugs have also been fixed.

Many thanks for funding towards the development of this release go to
Adyen (www.adyen.com).

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

Links

* Website: http://www.pgbarman.org/
* Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
* Documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation/
* Support: http://www.pgbarman.org/support/
* pgespresso extension: https://github.com/2ndquadrant-it/
pgespresso

Release notes

* Added support for concurrent backup of PostgreSQL 9.2 and 9.3
servers that use the "pgespresso" extension. This feature is
controlled by the "backup_options" configuration option (global/
server) and activated when set to "concurrent_backup". Concurrent
backup allows DBAs to perform full backup operations from a
streaming replicated standby.
* Added the "barman diagnose" command which prints important
information about the Barman system (extremely useful for support
and problem solving)
* Improved error messages and exception handling interface
* Fixed bug in recovery of tablespaces that are created inside the
PGDATA directory (bug introduced in version 1.3.0)
* Fixed minor bug of unhandled -q option, for quiet mode of
commands to be used in cron jobs (bug introduced in version
1.3.0)
* Minor bug fixes and code refactoring

Download

* Release Notes: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
1.3.1/
* Sources: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/1.3.1/
barman-1.3.1.tar.gz/download
* RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 5: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/
files/1.3.1/barman-1.3.1-1.rhel5.noarch.rpm/download
(dependencies: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
rhel5-deps/)
* RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 6: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/
files/1.3.1/barman-1.3.1-1.rhel6.noarch.rpm/download
(dependencies: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files/
rhel6-deps/)
* PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/barman/1.3.1
* pgespresso on PostgreSQL Extension framework (PGXN): http://
pgxn.org/dist/pgespresso/
* pgespresso RPM/Debian packages: https://sourceforge.net/projects/
pgbarman/files/pgespresso/
* Online documentation: http://www.pgbarman.org/documentation
* PDF documentation: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgbarman/files
/1.3.1/barman-tutorial.en.pdf/download

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open source administration
tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python.
It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple
servers in business critical environments and help DBAs during the
recovery phase. Barman's most requested features include backup
catalogues, retention policies, remote backup and recovery, archiving
and compression of WAL files and backups. Barman is distributed under
GNU GPL 3.

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Gabriele Bartolini - 2ndQuadrant Italia
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it | www.2ndQuadrant.it