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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
The EDB Backup and Recovery Tool (BART) is an administrative utility providing simplified backup and recovery management for multiple local or remote EDB Postgres™ Advanced Server and PostgreSQL® database servers.
The following are some of the main features provided by BART:
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Supports complete, hot, physical backups of multiple Advanced Servers and PostgreSQL database servers
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Provides two types of backups – full base backups and block-level incremental backups
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Provides backup and recovery management of the database servers on local or remote hosts
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Uses a single, centralized catalog for backup data
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Provides retention policy support for defining and managing how long backups should be kept
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Provides the capability to store the backup data in compressed format
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Verifies backup data with checksums
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Displays backup information in an easy-to-read format
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Simplifies the point-in-time recovery process
The following sections provide the information needed to use BART:
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Section 2 provides an overview of the BART components and concepts.
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Section 3 describes the backup and recovery management process using BART.
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Section 4 provides information about using tablespaces.
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Section 5 provides a comprehensive example of both local and remote database server configuration and operation.
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Section 6 provides information about recent remediations.
The remaining sections in this section describe basic conventions used throughout this document.

1 Introduction

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