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