Thanks to the new utilities barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore introduced in Barman 2.11, it is now possible to execute the recovery of a PostgreSQL instance using a full backup previously executed using barman-cloud-wal-archive and barman-cloud-backup commands. Let’s discover together how to implement this in the following article. It is worth noting that in Barman 2.11, all cloud...

In the first part of this blog, Jonathan explained how the barman-wal-archive command works. Now, assuming you followed those instructions, you have a properly configured PostgreSQL instance up and running. In this second part, I will show you how the barman-cloud-backup command works. As you can guess from the command name itself, the barman-cloud-backup command allows you to execute backups...

Being a PostgreSQL database administrator and managing backups on a daily basis, one of the new features of Barman 2.10 that I liked the most is the transparent management of .partial WAL files during recovery. And, most likely, you feel the same if you have been using Barman with WAL streaming and have been asked to perform a full recovery of an instance. The context: RPO=0 backups and recovery...