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.