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BARMAN(5) Version 1.5.1 BARMAN(5)

NAME
barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

SYNOPSIS
barman [OPTIONS] COMMAND

DESCRIPTION
barman is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL
servers written in Python. barman can perform remote backups of
multiple servers in business critical environments and helps DBAs
during the recovery phase.

OPTIONS
-v, --version
Show program version number and exit.

-q, --quiet
Do not output anything. Useful for cron scripts.

-h, --help
Show a help message and exit.

-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
Use the specified configuration file.

COMMANDS
Important: every command has a help option

archive-wal SERVER_NAME
Archive the incoming WAL files for SERVER_NAME, moving them in
the archive, while applying compression if requested.

cron Perform maintenance tasks, such as enforcing retention policies
or WAL files management.

list-server
Show all the configured servers, and their descriptions.

show-server SERVER_NAME
Show information about SERVER_NAME, including: conninfo,
backup_directory, wals_directory and many more. Specify all as
SERVER_NAME to show information about all the configured
servers.

status SERVER_NAME
Show information about the status of a server, including: number
of available backups, archive_command, archive_status and many
more. For example:

Server quagmire:
Description: The Giggity database
Passive node: False
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.9
pgespresso extension: Not available
PostgreSQL Data directory: /srv/postgresql/9.3/data
PostgreSQL 'archive_command' setting: rsync -a %p barman@backup:/var/lib/barman/quagmire/incoming
Last archived WAL: 0000000100003103000000AD
Current WAL segment: 0000000100003103000000AE
Retention policies: enforced (mode: auto, retention: REDUNDANCY 2, WAL retention: MAIN)
No. of available backups: 2
First available backup: 20150908T003001
Last available backup: 20150909T003001
Minimum redundancy requirements: satisfied (2/1)

check SERVER_NAME
Show diagnostic information about SERVER_NAME, including: ssh
connection check, PostgreSQL version, configuration and backup
directories. Specify all as SERVER_NAME to show diagnostic
information about all the configured servers.

--nagios
Nagios plugin compatible output

diagnose
Collect diagnostic information about the server where barman is
installed and all the configured servers, including: global
configuration, SSH version, Python version, rsync version, as
well as current configuration and status of all servers.

backup SERVER_NAME
Perform a backup of SERVER_NAME using parameters specified in
the configuration file. Specify all as SERVER_NAME to perform a
backup of all the configured servers.

--immediate-checkpoint
forces the initial checkpoint to be done as quickly as
possible. Overrides value of the parameter
immediate_checkpoint, if present in the configuration
file.

--no-immediate-checkpoint
forces to wait for the checkpoint. Overrides value of
the parameter immediate_checkpoint, if present in the
configuration file.

--reuse-backup [INCREMENTAL_TYPE]
Overrides reuse_backup option behaviour. Possible values
for INCREMENTAL_TYPE are:

o off: do not reuse the last available backup;

o copy: reuse the last available backup for a server and
create a copy of the unchanged files (reduce backup
time);

o link: reuse the last available backup for a server and
create a hard link of the unchanged files (reduce
backup time and space);

link is the default target if --reuse-backup is used and
INCREMENTAL_TYPE is not explicited.

--retry-times
Number of retries of base backup copy, after an error.
Used during both backup and recovery operations.
Overrides value of the parameter basebackup_retry_times,
if present in the configuration file.

--no-retry
Same as --retry-times 0

--retry-sleep
Number of seconds of wait after a failed copy, before
retrying. Used during both backup and recovery
operations. Overrides value of the parameter
basebackup_retry_sleep, if present in the configuration
file.

list-backup SERVER_NAME
Show available backups for SERVER_NAME. This command is useful
to retrieve a backup ID. For example:

servername 20111104T102647 - Fri Nov 4 10:26:48 2011 - Size: 17.0 MiB - WAL Size: 100 B

In this case, *20111104T102647* is the backup ID.

show-backup SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
Show detailed information about a particular backup, identified
by the server name and the backup ID. See the Backup ID
shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts.
For example:

Backup 20150828T130001:
Server Name : quagmire
Status : DONE
PostgreSQL Version : 90402
PGDATA directory : /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/data

Base backup information:
Disk usage : 12.4 TiB (12.4 TiB with WALs)
Incremental size : 4.9 TiB (-60.02%)
Timeline : 1
Begin WAL : 0000000100000CFD000000AD
End WAL : 0000000100000D0D00000008
WAL number : 3932
WAL compression ratio: 79.51%
Begin time : 2015-08-28 13:00:01.633925+00:00
End time : 2015-08-29 10:27:06.522846+00:00
Begin Offset : 1575048
End Offset : 13853016
Begin XLOG : CFD/AD180888
End XLOG : D0D/8D36158

WAL information:
No of files : 35039
Disk usage : 121.5 GiB
WAL rate : 275.50/hour
Compression ratio : 77.81%
Last available : 0000000100000D95000000E7

Catalog information:
Retention Policy : not enforced
Previous Backup : 20150821T130001
Next Backup : - (this is the latest base backup)

list-files [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
List all the files in a particular backup, identified by the
server name and the backup ID. See the Backup ID shortcuts
(#shortcuts) section below for available shortcuts.

--target TARGET_TYPE
Possible values for TARGET_TYPE are:

o data: lists just the data files;

o standalone: lists the base backup files, including
required WAL files;

o wal: lists all the WAL files between the start of the
base backup and the end of the log / the start of the
following base backup (depending on whether the
specified base backup is the most recent one
available);

o full: same as data + wal.

The default value is standalone.

rebuild-xlogdb SERVER_NAME
Perform a rebuild of the WAL file metadata for SERVER_NAME (or
every server, using the all shortcut) guessing it from the disk
content. The metadata of the WAL archive is contained in the
xlog.db file, and every Barman server has its own copy.

recover [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID DESTINATION_DIRECTORY
Recover a backup in a given directory (local or remote,
depending on the --remote-ssh-command option settings). See the
Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts) section below for available
shortcuts.

--target-tli TARGET_TLI
Recover the specified timeline.

--target-time TARGET_TIME
Recover to the specified time.

You can use any valid unambiguous representation (e.g:
"YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm").

--target-xid TARGET_XID
Recover to the specified transaction ID.

--target-name TARGET_NAME
Recover to the named restore point previously created
with the pg_create_restore_point(name) (for PostgreSQL
9.1 and above users).

--exclusive
Set target xid to be non inclusive.

--tablespace NAME:LOCATION
Specify tablespace relocation rule.

--remote-ssh-command SSH_COMMAND
This options activates remote recovery, by specifying the
secure shell command to be launched on a remote host.
This is the equivalent of the "ssh_command" server option
in the configuration file for remote recovery. Example:
'ssh postgres@db2'.

--retry-times
Number of retries of data copy during base backup after
an error. Overrides value of the parameter
basebackup_retry_times, if present in the configuration
file.

--no-retry
Same as --retry-times 0

--retry-sleep
Number of seconds of wait after a failed copy, before
retrying. Overrides value of the parameter
basebackup_retry_sleep, if present in the configuration
file.

get-wal [OPTIONS] SERVER_NAME WAL_ID
Retrieve a WAL file from the xlog archive of a given server. By
default, the requested WAL file, if found, is returned as
uncompressed content to STDOUT. The following options allow
users to change this behaviour:

-o OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
destination directory where the get-wal will deposit the
requested WAL

-j output will be compressed using gzip

-x output will be compressed using bzip2

delete SERVER_NAME BACKUP_ID
Delete the specified backup. Backup ID shortcuts (#shortcuts)
section below for available shortcuts.

BACKUP ID SHORTCUTS
Rather than using the timestamp backup ID, you can use any of the
following shortcuts/aliases to identity a backup for a given server:

first Oldest available backup for that server, in chronological order.

last Latest available backup for that server, in chronological order.

latest same ast last.

oldest same ast first.

EXIT STATUS
0 Success

Not zero
Failure

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